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Scenario Prompts – 31 October 2025
The scenario prompt for today is how biology and technology are starting to merge. From programmable mushrooms, soft robot eyes, artificial neurons and a really interesting post about the developments organoids. It is time to study biomimicry and to keep biotech on your radar. Part of your future business model will be nature based.
The other prompts to expand your lens today are:
- You are the upgrade, a summary of 25 books about AI, the conclusion is augmented natural intelligence as the way forward
- Printing vocal cords
- Trend bipolarity
- An artificial tongue
- Injectable antenna
- Trendwatching
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.
World’s smallest 3D bioprinting robot delivers healing gels to damaged vocal cords
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/precision-bioprinting-in-vocal-cord-surgery
Inspired by an elephant’s trunk, researchers have built a flexible bioprinter that fits inside the human throat to reconstruct vocal folds.
Mushrooms grown to replace plastic and fabric
https://springwise.com/circular-economy/mushrooms-engineered-for-sustainable-material-alternatives/
Genetic diversity enables fungi to produce customised sustainable materials
Trend bipolarity: after the trend cycle
https://andjelicaaa.substack.com/p/trend-bipolarity-after-the-trend
Trend Bipolarity is essentially trend vs. Countertrend.
Inside the emerging world of anesthesia “dream therapy”
https://bigthinkmedia.substack.com/p/inside-the-emerging-world-of-anesthesia
Hyper-vivid, anesthesia-induced dreams seem to be helping people to heal.
Artificial Tongue Uses Milk To Gauge The Burn Of Spicy Foods
https://scienceblog.com/artificial-tongue-uses-milk-to-gauge-the-burn-of-spicy-foods/
Inside a small transparent square of soft gel, chemistry imitates comfort. Like milk easing the sting of hot peppers, this new artificial tongue mimics that soothing reaction to measure just how fiery a food really is.
A Squishy New Robotic ‘Eye’ Automatically Focuses Like Our Own
https://singularityhub.com/2025/10/30/these-squishy-robotic-eyes-automatically-focus-like-our-own/
The lenses could give soft robots the ability to ‘see’ without electronics.
Injectable antenna could safely power deep-tissue medical implants
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-antenna-safely-power-deep-tissue.html
Researchers from the MIT Media Lab have developed an antenna—about the size of a fine grain of sand—that can be injected into the body to wirelessly power deep-tissue medical implants, such as pacemakers in cardiac patients and neuromodulators in people suffering from epilepsy or Parkinson’s disease.
New artificial neurons replicate real brain chemistry for smarter AI hardware design
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/usc-artificial-neurons-ai-hardware
Researchers have built artificial neurons that physically replicate the electrochemical behavior of real brain cells
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Food Trends
https://thefuturemarket.substack.com/p/the-self-fulfilling-prophecy-of-food
How collective belief shapes reality. There’s a name for this: the Thomas theorem, which states that if people define situations as real, they become real in their consequences.
They’re growing miniature 3D brains from stem cells.
https://link.vox.com/view/64e71e09211d5091830ece08p60hs.upg/998c54f2
A perspective on organoids.
