Most of these advances are just scary. You know they’ll be misused. As far as self-repairing materials the Romans figured out self-repairing concrete. We still can’t make concrete as well as the Romans.
We've figured out the recipe for Roman concrete. The secret being lime. Found it this year. Put simply, the problem is while roman concrete can repair itself with the lime, its strength is not on par with modern concrete. It couldn't support what we build today.
I don't think it would be a good idea to control a wheelchair with an neural interface. Sneeze and the thing might shoot off like a rocket or start spinning in circles!
Exactly how do you leave Millimeter Wave Drilling and AI out of the most game-changing technologies? One will make solar, wind, and fusion power generation obsolete and the other will be the end of mankind.
