Cheap access to space: The Final Frontier is too damn expensive
Asteroid mining: Rummaging through the Solar System's junkyard
Fusion power: It powers the sun, and that's nice, but can it run my toaster?
Programmable matter: What if all of your stuff could be any of your stuff?
Robotic construction: Build me a rumpus room, metal servant!
Augmented reality: An alternative to fixing reality
Synthetic biology: Kind of like Frankenstein, except the monster spends the whole book dutifully making medicine and industrial inputs
Precision medicine: Everything that's wrong with you in particular; a statistical approach
Bioprinting: Why stop at seven margaritas when you can just print a new liver?
Brain-computer interfaces: Because after four billion years of evolution you still can't remember where you put your keys
Conclusion: Less soonisher, or The graveyard of lost chapters.