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im looking into future technology for my ATL and ive gotten on to medical tech. any opinions as to how medical technology will advance between now and the year 2032? what i currently have ideas for are:


  • cybernetic prosthetics: kinda like ghost in the shell, though probably not as advanced, more in the way of really responsive artificial limbs and efficient prosthetic organs. one GITS-like tech could be early cyberbrains, which would be rare and increase the effectiveness of a human's skills all around, but also make them vulnerable to computer viruses and cause real damage from an immaterial source
  • genetic engineering: limited due to costs and maybe ethics, would entail custom-designing cells and "minor" modifications like taste bud tweaking, digestive improvements, nerve mapping to reduce the chance of paralysis in back and neck injuries, and possibly "security nodes" to give doctors easy access to an individual's medical database at any time. there could also be genetically engineered plants that grow faster and produce numerous products like a generic but nutritious "food paste" like what people in the 50s imagined
what im mainly asking about is what kinds of diseases you all think would be cured or close to being cured by the year 2032, based on OTL medical technology from right now
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