Mind candy are prompts to help you to keep up to date, develop strategic responses to trends and train your change muscle, making you more resilient and agile for the future. If you need help with developing these prompts, you can book a free appointment here. If you want me to speak at your event, contact me at ron@ronimmink.com
How to use the prompts
Become a trend watcher yourself. Use these prompts to explore their relevance, assess opportunities and threats, and analyse timelines and impacts on your organisation. Consider multiple possible futures across varying time horizons—1, 3, 5, and 10 years.
Scenario prompts 15 January 2025
Todays prompts are the labour market, wearables, Saudi Arabia, personal digital twins, tapping into technology, quantum internet, thermodynamic computing, balcony solar, insurance and AI Tarot.
Have you tapped into technology enough?
AI could create 78 million more jobs than it eliminates by 2030—report
AI could create 170 million new jobs globally while eliminating 92 million positions, resulting in a net increase of 78 million jobs by 2030.
The best wearable tech we’ve seen at CES
https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-best-wearable-tech-weve-seen-at-ces/
Rings, sleep, cardio, smart glasses, glucose, smart watches and ear cleaning…
Saudi Arabia’s deep tech startup ecosystem thrives with focus on AI and IoT, fueling Vision 2030
The rapid growth of deep tech startups in Saudi Arabia, with 50% of these startups focusing on AI and IoT.
’Digital Twins’ Are No Longer Science Fiction
Virtual copies of the human body could help prevent and treat some of health care’s trickiest diseases.
How Small Businesses Can Tap Into Technology: 20 Expert Tips
Build, buy, boost, LCNC, citizen development, as-a-service, fractional, talent, AI, open source, etc.
US achieves first uninterrupted quantum internet signal in a major security milestone
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/first-quantum-entangled-signal-commercial-network
Researchers have successfully developed and tested the first-ever transmission of a quantum entangled signal over a commercial network.
Thermodynamic Computing: The next computer architecture
Thermodynamic Computing is based on the ability to capture and use energy from the continuous motion and of all matter.
Germans turn to balcony solar panels to save money
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250108-germans-turn-to-balcony-solar-panels-to-save-money
More than 800,000 such kits had been installed in Germany by the end of 2024, official data shows — boosted by subsidies and a desire to save amid high energy costs. Three million kits are now in operation nationwide.
The home insurance crisis can’t be fixed with money alone
Climate change is driving up the price of home insurance.
AI Tarot
https://www.trendhunter.com/protrends/ai-tarot
AI services that provide tarot card readings for users’ situations are gaining popularity.
