While we are surrounded by flat screens, both in our hands and in our surrounding areas, the information coming to us has never been more of a deluge.  Information is going to be everywhere in the future, including our clothing, so the power to harness data everywhere, even on us, could be a fascinating and frightening possibility, depending on what you want to know about a person passing you down the hall.
Scientists Invent Transistors Made From Cotton
3D Printing has been all the rage from the Steampunk jewelry and dice to multiple articles in The Economist, but regular printing cannot be forgotten.  One doctor’s anthrax-finding printout 20 years ago may lead to new printers that allow everyone to find out what may be ailing them.
Using Printed Pages To Find Diseases
Biology is extremely complex much like the intricate designs of an automobile or a building.  Using CAD-like to play with the biological components of RNA could have biology students acting like engineering students in the future, programming and designing the future of what biosciences could create or fix.
The Engineering of Biology:  Using CAD To Tinker With RNA
The science fiction movie Limitless promoted the idea of the super power of learning and knowledge through a pill.  The Baylor College of Medicine, while studying the brain activities of mice while under viral infections, may have unearthed the reality of the Limitless pill.  Could you become a superbrain in no time?
Neuroscientists Working On Memory-Enhancing Drug