[androidbishop]

I think an inevitable but mostly untapped direction of research is to leverage biotechnology to manufacture materials to replace plastics, metals, chemicals etc., that either don't have renewable sources or can't be biodegraded back into source material. We can go even further and create new biological machines, bioengineered motors and computers and all kinds of shit scaled up from existing models in nature.

The technology of nature and life is far more advanced than anything we have conjured up ourselves, and the more we learn from it and harness it, the more we will be able to advance and evolve our technological progress without creating all the geopolitical and environmental problems that usually come with these advancements.