Which science fiction concept will be the next to become reality.

Bionic Man tick 

 

although my own nightmares revolve around being hunted down by a swarm of out of control micro drones - overwhelming by sheer numbers and burrowing into me through all bodily orifices

although my own nightmares revolve around being hunted down by a swarm of out of control micro drones - overwhelming by sheer numbers and burrowing into me through all bodily orifices

That's an episode of Black Mirror, isn't it? 

Boringly, probably chemical structures and synthesis.

And not just new antibiotics and anti-vitals.

Design me a drug with a stable structure and able to target and kill specific receptors in a human brain. Now design me a viable synthesis. Now tell me how to effectively deploy it into a certain cities water supply.

An accessible memory chip.  Starts for short term memory loss and then we become elephants.  And possibly delete my memories of being burnt on random internet chats.

What happened to nanobots?  They were all set to be the new THING and then michael chricton wrote that book and now you never hear of them.

or is that what they want?

Design me a drug with a stable structure and able to target and kill specific receptors in a human brain. Now design me a viable synthesis. Now tell me how to effectively deploy it into a certain cities water supply.

Is this not some anti-mRNA vax conspiracy theory?

Wang, so many new technologies get lauded the same way as the answer to alljof the world's problems- e.g. nanobots, the blockchain, 5g, the metaverse, Web 3.0, graphene, nuclear fission and, hopefully, AI.