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Today’s scenario prompt: quantum, sensitive cities, brain implants and AI insurance
- Quantum teleportation for unbreakable security.
- Sensitive cities that listen and adapt to citizens.
- Quantum thinking for wicked strategy problems.
- Brain implants smaller than cells, injected through your veins.
- And insurance companies quietly refusing to insure AI.
These aren’t sci-fi headlines. They’re weak signals. Each one has implications for how you design your products, your organisation, and innovation portfolios across multiple time horizons.
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Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Quantum teleportation between photons from two distant light sources achieved
Everyday life on the internet is insecure. Hackers can break into bank accounts or steal digital identities. Driven by AI, attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Quantum cryptography promises more effective protection
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-quantum-teleportation-photons-distant-sources.html
Why Machines Can’t Match Our Wildest Ideas
LLMs operate within a symmetrical mathematical space, producing an average of what they have already seen rather than leaping toward the unexpected.
https://scienceblog.com/neuroedge/2025/11/21/why-machines-cant-match-our-wildest-ideas/
Designing with Empathy: From Smart to Sensitive Cities
https://www.archdaily.com/1036219/designing-with-empathy-from-smart-to-sensitive-cities
A sensitive city listens to its climate, adapts to its inhabitants, and responds to the subtle rhythms of the environment. In this shift from computation to perception, architecture and urban design are rediscovering intelligence as a form of empathy
Quantum Thinking Can Help You Solve Complex Strategy Challenges
https://hbr.org/2025/11/quantum-thinking-can-help-you-solve-complex-strategy-challenges
Many of today’s toughest strategic challenges are “wicked problems”—issues shaped by tangled variables, shifting outcomes, and stakeholder complexity that overwhelm traditional analytics. Quantum modelling offers a new way forward. Also read https://www.ronimmink.com/quantum-leadership/
We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
We pointed an ultrasound probe at the scent-processing region of the brain to obtain different sensations. Different focal spots corresponded to different smells
https://writetobrain.com/olfactory
Insurance Companies Are Terrified to Cover AI, Which Should Probably Tell You Something
Top insurance firms like AIG, American Financial Group’s Great American, and WR Berkley are begging US regulators to let them exclude AI liability from their policies.
https://futurism.com/future-society/insurance-cyber-risk-ai
These Brain Implants Are Smaller Than Cells and Can Be Injected Into Veins
The tiny chips hitch a ride on immune cells to target inflammation in the brain. Kurzweil is near. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/we-are-now-entering-the-steep-part-of-the-exponential/
https://singularityhub.com/2025/11/25/brain-implants-smaller-than-cells-can-be-injected-into-veins/
