The future is future fitness. The advantage isn’t prediction. It’s how fast your leadership team can notice and anticipate change and respond.
It is not geopolitics. China is a strategy story
While much of the West is still treating AI as a productivity tool, China is treating the next decade as a full-stack industrial redesign. Its latest five-year blueprint pushes an “AI+” action plan and doubles down on frontier bets such as quantum, embodied AI, 6G and machine-brain interfaces, while tying them directly to industrial upgrading and advanced manufacturing.
Look at the direction of travel: biomanufacturing, embodied intelligence, advanced materials, smart industry, AI embedded across legacy sectors. This is not experimentation at the edges. It is a blueprint for industrial renewal.
The question is not whether China is right. The real question is whether you have a blueprint of your own. What are you building now that will still matter in 2030?
Also read Breakneck: “China’s Quest to Engineer the Future”
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/hk/article/630062
The other prompts
My latests book about books about AI
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Researchers develop beating, 3D‑printed heart model for surgical practice
Researchers have developed a 3D-printed model of the left side of the heart that contracts and beats,
Gene-edited fungus, eyed as a meat replacement, is revolutionizing the food industry
A gene-edited fungus has produced meat-like protein that grows faster and requires far less sugar than the strain used today.Those gains move one of the world’s oldest meat substitutes closer to competing with livestock for efficiency and scale.
https://www.earth.com/news/gene-edited-fungus-revolutionizing-the-food-industry-meat-replacement/
Inverse design meets 4D printing in mechanical metamaterials
Engineers can now define a target mechanical response and generate a printable lattice to match it, turning materials design into a programmable process
https://interestingengineering.com/case-studies/inverse-design-printed-metamaterials
Wireless eye implant helps blind patients read again
Tiny wireless eye implant may help restore some of that lost central vision
https://www.earth.com/news/wireless-eye-implant-helps-blind-patients-read-again/
Scientists Simulate An Entire Living Cell Growing And Dividing In 4D
On a supercomputer in Illinois, a cell is being born
https://scienceblog.com/scientists-simulate-an-entire-living-cell-growing-and-dividing-in-4d/
