Thread: Emerging Technologies That Ought to be Explored in Fiction
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Old 02-18-2012, 01:09 PM   #2
fjtorres
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Drones and telepresence.
The tech has a lot more uses than were previously anticipated; everybody assumed we'd need autonomous robots but it looks like the real world is going to explode in applications just about now. And with brainwave controls inching up to reality, telepresence is something to take seriously.

Nanotech, btw, has rarely been properly presented in fiction so far. The entire nanomaterials arena and the ability to custom-design materials hasn't really been explored. The chemistry of nanoparticles alone is terra incognita and we're barely starting to scratch the realm of super-atoms.
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