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Open-source governance aka participatory democracy
Architecture/ housing/ livingry (this is the most obvious thing lacking right now)
Virtual reality, its applications and the emerging technologies that are enabling it
- Virtual reality for education. Virtual schools and universities.
- Space colonists will not feel as though they are far from home, because they will share a cyberspace with Earth-dwellers
- Extrapolating the trend of increased screen resolution, we find that computer graphics will be indistinguishable from the real world by around 2023. Motion-capture is rapidly emerging (Wii, Kinect etc.). Haptics are on their way too. Within 15-20 years, we are certain to have immersive, convincing virtual worlds. This will be integrated with the Internet, so that visiting a website may be like visiting a physical place
- Open Cobalt is an open-source, distributed virtual world.
Synthetic biology (and biotechnology generally)
- Making cheap pharmaceuticals
- Photosynthetic and microbial electricity. Bacteria for producing hydrogen fuel from water.
- Restore environment (bioremediation). Scrub carbon [1]. Industries that produce toxic chemicals could break them down on-site.
- Terraforming of Mars. Find extremophile bacteria that could thrive in the Martian atmosphere and temperatures (there are already candidates for this), and engineer/breed them to produce maximal levels of oxygen.

Better fabrication technologies, culiminating in the molecular assembler.
- Somewhere along the way, fabrication technologies will become self-replicating. This is an important disruptive technology, because it takes productivity away from the industrial production-line.
- As fabrication technologies (including CAD software) become easier to use, they will be used by the general population, not just specialists. An expanded user-base means more people posting free designs online.
Self-repairing technology cutting humans out of the loop
The existing free resources (information, software, and free physical goods like freecycling) will steadily grow until many people can live off them

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 * Architecture/ housing/ livingry ('''this is the most obvious thing lacking right now''')
 * Virtual reality, its applications and the emerging technologies that are enabling it
+** Virtual reality for education. Virtual schools and universities.
+** Space colonists will not feel as though they are far from home, because they will share a cyberspace with Earth-dwellers
+** Extrapolating the trend of increased screen resolution, we find that computer graphics will be indistinguishable from the real world by around 2023. Motion-capture is rapidly emerging (Wii, Kinect etc.). Haptics are on their way too. Within 15-20 years, we are certain to have immersive, convincing virtual worlds. This will be integrated with the Internet, so that visiting a website may be like visiting a physical place
+** [http://www.opencobalt.org/ Open Cobalt] is an open-source, distributed virtual world.
 * Synthetic biology (and biotechnology generally)
 ** Making cheap pharmaceuticals
-** Better food
 ** Photosynthetic and microbial electricity. Bacteria for producing hydrogen fuel from water.
 ** Restore environment (bioremediation). Scrub carbon [http://www.gizmag.com/bacteria-convert-co2-calcium-carbonate/11069/]. Industries that produce toxic chemicals could break them down on-site.