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 4 March 2025
Todays prompts are leadership and AI, alloy, AI trends, incrementalism, 3D communication, shape-shifting robot swarms, synthetic microbiome, living neural interfaces, digital product sampling, and a spiritual rebirth.
Incrementalism is holding you back
AI won’t save your team—it will expose leadership cracks
https://testdouble.com/insights/ai-and-engineering-leadership
AI is like a hyper-productive junior engineer: energetic but lacking judgment. Without leadership and strategy, it can amplify chaos instead of progress.
Moon to bone: Superelastic alloy withstands extreme -450°F to 500°F temperatures
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/superelastic-alloy-withstands-extreme-temperatures
The alloy’s superelasticity across a wide temperature range makes it highly suitable for extreme environments such as deep space.
The 5 AI Trends In 2025: Agents, Open-Source, And Multi-Model
Open source, multi modal, local AI, cost wars and AI agents.
Is Incrementalism Holding Back Your AI Strategy?
https://hbr.org/2025/03/is-incrementalism-holding-back-your-ai-strategy?ab=HP-hero-latest-1
The risks and opportunity costs of focusing only on incrementalism are well-documented
Google’s New Tech Means Video Calls May Not Be the Death of Us After All
Google and HP are betting that Project Starline will usher in a new era of 3-D communications that doesn’t require a headset or glasses
Shape-shifting robot swarm can move, stiffen, and adapt just like living cells
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/shape-shifting-robot-swarm
The robot swarm can perform functions while maintaining cohesion, supporting substantial weight, and even self-healing.
Synthetic microbiome therapy suppresses bacterial infection without antibiotics
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02-synthetic-microbiome-therapy-suppresses-bacterial.html
While it draws on the idea of human fecal transplants, a medical procedure where bacteria from a healthy donor’s stool is transferred to a patient’s gastrointestinal tract to restore balance to the microbiome, the new approach doesn’t require any fecal matter.
Living Neural Interfaces Could Transform Treatment Of Brain Disorder
https://scienceblog.com/living-neural-interfaces-could-transform-treatment-of-brain-disorders/
Recent advances in neural interface technology are moving away from rigid metal devices toward designs inspired by biology itself, potentially revolutionizing how we interact with our own brains.
The Evolution of Product Sampling in the Digital Age
https://365retail.co.uk/the-evolution-of-product-sampling-in-the-digital-age/
Digital sampling is increasingly being woven into the customer journey.
Is America Experiencing a Spiritual Rebirth?
https://witwisdom.tomgreene.com/p/spiritual-rebirth
Today, 86% of Americans believe that people have a soul or spirit in addition to a physical body. There is also surprising agreement across the board as to what happens when we die.
