We can learn from Biology where Information Technology might be heading. 
This was how digital electronics and modern IT began.

First, water is a semiconductor. The conducting charged particle in water 
is the proton. Other than specific values, quantum mechanics makes no 
distinction between protons in a water lattice and electrons in a silicon 
lattice.

Second, proton donor and acceptor impurities contribute to conductivity in 
water the same way electron donor and acceptor impurities contribute to 
conductivity in silicon. These proton donors and acceptors are called acids 
and bases.

Biology is all about the manufacture of protein. Protein molecules are very 
large polymers with very exact placement of acid and base units. Protein 
with associated water is quite analogous to an epoxy printed circuit board 
with silicon ICs soldered on; except thousands of times smaller and faster 
(in the optical domain).

Unlike an epoxy PCB, the shape of a protein molecule can be changed; thus, 
the circuit is changed, or reconfigured. Many things can change the protein 
circuit configuration, including electromagnetic fields (liquid crystals).

Much is made of neural interconnects, and neuro-transmitters. This is only 
the skeleton.

Today, "nanotechnology" (as they call it now) is being taken quite 
seriously.

Perhaps this is of interest to a few adventurous Linux users.