What with all our wearable tech and even smart contact lenses, it looks like the future is going to be cyborg, and scientists at Harvard made that future even more secure in 2015. Bioengineers at the university have managed to created the first tissue samples that are half man, half machine. Researchers created hybrid neurons, heart cells, muscle, and blood vessels by taking a collagen scaffold, wiring it up with nanowires and transistors, then encouraging the "natural" tissue to grow around it. The result has been dubbed NanoES (short for nanoelectric scaffold) Tissue. Although we have a long way to go, the applications for this technology are astonishing. You would be able to integrate you body into your personal tech, and even perhaps control it from your smartphone (or whatever we'll be using by that point). Need a boost? Just open the adrenalin app. Feeling burned out? A bit of serotonin should do you good. You could even use it to monitor the body for abnormalities and alert to to or even treat any developing problems. Perhaps we've been looking at the prospect of a robot uprising from the wrong angle. With this kind of technology, we could soon be the robots.
