Will fingerprint evidence become the new DNA?

Perhaps new technology (nanotechnology) will dramatically improve the ability to retrieve fingerprints from difficult surfaces and also to retrieve them even when fingerprint impressions were left years or decades ago. See Nanotechnology is key to recovering usable fingerprints from old evidence
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The dynamic evidence page

It's here: the law of evidence on Spindle Law. See also this post and this post.