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Technology will continue to accelerate

You said that today we are at the same stage as computers were in 1947. However, advancements were quite slow for the first twenty-odd years of the last 60. Today new techniques and hybrid materials could see this field mature in less than 30years.

Here are a few ideas where I think this technology could be applied.

Biological implants for improved body-machine interfaces (bionic limbs)

Self-replicating nanomachines could be used to speed up the build-processes. Hopefully avoiding a grey-goo scenario, or what is portrayed in the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.

If the scientists could think about analog nano-machines, perhaps direct links with the human brain can be achieved without gaping holes and thick cables in the skull.

Augmenting the biological machinery of living cells could also provide a means to accelerate the self-building aspect of the technology.

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