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Scenario prompt 15 September 2025
The scenario prompts for today is hat the Albania’s prime minister has appointed an AI-generated ‘minister’ to tackle corruption. This is straight out of a Neal Asher novel. Covering space, AI, biotech, augmentation, etc. Keep on saying it. Read science fiction. Will open your eyes and frame your future. Science fiction is getting very close to science fact.
The other prompts are 25 books about AI, digital disruption, parallel universes, the space industry, the future of strategy, life cement, and re-engineered plants.
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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.
What It Takes to Lead Through Digital Disruption
https://hbr.org/2025/09/what-it-takes-to-lead-through-digital-disruption
Create a tension between two leadership styles: prospectors, who display curiosity about internal and external threats and opportunities, and miners, who are willing to go deep and invest in a particular topic or direction.
Google quantum chip that peeked into ‘parallel universe’ reveals exotic matter
https://interestingengineering.com/science/quantum-chip-that-peeked-into-parallel-universe
Scientists have observed a never-before-seen exotic phase of matter on a quantum processor using Google’s 58-qubit AI chip Willow, which previously suggested we may live in a multiverse
Albania’s prime minister appoints an AI-generated ‘minister’ to tackle corruption
The new AI minister, officially named Diella – the female form of the word for sun in the Albanian language – was appointed on Friday and is a virtual entity. Read Neal Asher.
How AI and other trends in technology are starting to supercharge the space industry
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/ai-tech-trends-supercharge-space-industry/
The moon, connectivity, big rockets, data, security and AI.
Imagining Tomorrow: Ten Trends Redefining The Future Of Strategy
https://chiefexecutive.net/imagining-tomorrow-ten-trends-redefining-the-future-of-strategy/
Leadership, geopolitics, climate, risk, resilience, talent, data, digital, overload, and execution.
Scientists Infuse Cement With Bacteria to Create Living Energy Device
https://gizmodo.com/scientists-infuse-cement-with-bacteria-to-create-living-energy-device-2000657611
The cement came to life, with the bacteria establishing a “network of charge carriers capable of both storing and releasing electrical energy.
New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/new-pathway-engineered-into-plants-lets-them-suck-up-more-co₂/
Researchers put together a set of enzymes that added a new-to-nature biochemical cycle to plants that let it incorporate carbon far more efficiently. The resulting plants grew larger and incorporated more carbon.
