We’ve had a revolutionary S-curve with computing/artificial reasoning in inventing transistors — but we know we’re still at the bottom of two related S-curves, quantum computing (an exponential increase in many problems of interest) and IOT/smart systems where our automated reasoning is embodied in something. We know somewhere up those curves lies the ability to make new kinds of minds.
I think both of those will prove to be bigger than bio-science... and more over, bio-science will require them to a) do the experiments and b) find uses for the technologies.
I think human augmentation will turn out to be like spaceflight: humans are near the top of their S-curve already.
Instead, I think biology research won’t come into its own until AGI research does and we have an idea of how to make new biological systems.
Of course, that might kill us all. Horribly.