Culture is the last battleground

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Scenario prompt 22 July 2025

The prompt for today is shared values. You cannot compete on technology, you can compete on culture. Because of the ongoing technology abstraction, culture will be the last battleground for business.

The other scenario prompts are social media trends, for OS to DA, virtual showrooms, tiny nuclear reactors, artificial nerves, Europe´s future, and you are the upgrade.

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What’s really changing in social media? Start with these 10 trends

https://www.thedrum.com/news/2025/07/21/what-s-really-changing-social-media-start-with-these-10-trends

Authenticity, influencers, AI, social search, short video, reactive listening, IRL activation, digital detox, and community.

Most AI Interaction Will Go Through Your DA

https://danielmiessler.com/blog/stages-of-app

Why your AI Assistant, not your OS, will be the final destination for most AI functionality

How Virtual Showrooms Are Transforming The Future Of Shopping

How Virtual Showrooms Are Transforming the Future of Shopping

Virtual showrooms are changing the way people shop in all kinds of industries, technologies, and ways of buying things.

The U.S. Is Testing Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Can Go Practically Anywhere

https://gizmodo.com/these-mini-nuclear-plants-fit-on-a-flatbed-and-thats-exactly-the-point-2000627089

Compact, energy-efficient microreactors could soon help generate electricity for remote locations.

Robots can now feel difference between pat and punch with new artificial nerves

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/robots-feel-difference-between-pat-and-punch

KAIST has unveiled a neuromorphic semiconductor-based artificial sensory nervous system that lets robots ignore safe, familiar stimuli and react quickly to dangerous ones, much like living organism

When You Fail To Forge Shared Values, Your Vision Will Fail Too

https://digitaltonto.com/2025/when-you-fail-to-forge-shared-values-your-will-vision-fail-too/

Culture is the last battleground for business.

Europe’s futures

https://farsight.cifs.dk/europes-futures-four-scenarios/

Four scenarios for the next decade

You are the upgrade

https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/

Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.

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