What’s on your lab technology wish list?

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Once-magical tools are now mundane. What will the next miracles be?

Arthur C Clarke famously noted that ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic’. Over the years, I think that many of us have had a chance to feel some of the truth behind that statement. But what technologies would one put on a wish list for the coming decades for chemistry and biology?