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Engineering biology has received a modest list of tasks involving blood, clothes, crops, metals and repairing most of civilisation.
Portable oxygen now comes in a five-kilogram unit that reuses breath and leaves traditional cylinders feeling needlessly dramatic.
Planning AI can digitise old records in 40 seconds, leaving councils free to spend two hours locating the correct attachment.
Zombie projects will leave the electricity grid queue after years of shuffling forward and asking whether anyone has a spare connection point.
Formation flying spacecraft found each other with a laser after trying the orbital equivalent of standing by the trolley bay.
Small satellites face a large universe, a tiny budget and the annual expectation that an intern can explain dark matter by lunch.
ESA's Hera Mars flyby surveys Oxia Planum for a 2030 rover, proving even a dead planet needs a property inspection before science can begin.
