Scenario prompts 6 April 2023; are you fit for the future?

If you want to become more anticipatory, buy yourself the time to respond, develop your change muscle, and increase the quality of your strategy development, here are the scenario prompts for 6 April 2023. If you want to develop your own scenario prompts, go here. 

Underwater kites, decentralised organisations, fitness trends, global healthcare, Moravec’s paradox, a circular watch, AR for dentists, your own death in VR, organoids hearts, AI hallucination, underwater robots, visual models of your brain and immortal jellyfish.

Are you fit for the future? Read https://www.ronimmink.com/physical-and-mental-fitness-as-the-leadership-framework/

Underwater kites harness energy from predictable tidal currents

https://www.springwise.com/innovation/agriculture-energy/underwater-kites-harness-energy-from-predictable-tidal-currents/?

A startup has developed a ‘kite’ with a turbine that ‘flies’ underwater to generate electricity from predictable tidal streams and ocean current.

4 Key Ways to Facilitate Knowledge Sharing in a Highly Decentralized Organization

https://www.corporate-rebels.com/blog/knowledge-sharing-in-decentralized-firms?

Trust, communities of passion, open space and weekly CEO meeting.

Fit For The Future: 10 Trends That Will Transform The Fitness Industry

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2023/04/05/fit-for-the-future-10-trends-that-will-transform-the-fitness-industry/?

Metaverse, IoT, gamification, home, biohacking, holistic health, experience economy, elderly and time optimisation.

World Health Day: 8 trends shaping global healthcare

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/world-health-day-8-trends-shaping-global-healthcare

Spend, investment, scientific advancement, digital innovation, AI, alternative care models, inequalities, burn out, staff shortage, mental health and macro economics.

AI Is Running Circles Around Robotics

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/04/ai-robotics-research-engineering/673608/

Moravec’s paradox is the observation by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning requires very little computation, but sensorimotor and perception skills require enormous computational resources.

The Mission: ‘Create the Most Circular Watch’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/fashion/watches-id-geneve-switzerland.html 

The ambition to develop ecologically innovative materials that it intends to share with other Swiss watch companies. 

Dentists Can Tell If You’ve Brushed Your Teeth Using AR

https://vrscout.com/news/dentists-can-tell-if-youve-brushed-your-teeth-using-ar/?

Man and machine merging.

Experience your own Death in Virtual Reality

https://mixed-news.com/en/experience-death-virtual-reality/?

A study showed that the virtual reality experience is comparable to LSD or psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms.

A mini-heart in a Petri dish

https://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/mini-herzen-in-der-kulturschale?

Mini hearts, mini brains, mini humans?

What is AI Hallucination? What Goes Wrong with AI Chatbots? How to Spot a Hallucinating Artificial Intelligence?

https://www.marktechpost.com/2023/04/02/what-is-ai-hallucination-what-goes-wrong-with-ai-chatbots-how-to-spot-a-hallucinating-artificial-intelligence/?

Artificial intelligence hallucination happens when an AI model produces results that are not what was anticipated.

Robots are making waves under the ocean

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/29/underwater-robots-drones?

The global ocean economy — everything from food and transportation to energy and telecommunications — is predicted to amount to $3 trillion by 2030, more than most countries’ GDP.

How virtual models of the brain could transform epilepsy surgery

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00990-6?

A digital twin of your brain?

These Jellyfish Are Basically Immortal. Do They Hold the Key to Human Longevity?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a43440326/studying-turritopsis-dohrnii-immortal-jellyfish-for-human-longevity/?

Biomimicry and immortality. Nature as the source. 

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