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Sustaining a Shared Reality: How Past Technology Waves Have Impacted Strategy
Strategy is a creative, judgment-based process that cannot simply be programmed or systematised. Meaningful strategy requires insight, wisdom, and perspective. Systems can prevent thinking when they are used as substitutes for human thought.
Automation can make leaders dumber, shared reality has to be built together, and AI accelerates the fast layer, but strategy lives in the slow layer. You need to create that slow layer.
https://whitneyzim.medium.com/sustaining-a-shared-reality-how-past-technology-waves-have-impacted-strategy-c5965139341f
Take one strategic issue and create the space for dialogue. Start with raw signals, uncomfortable questions and competing interpretations. Use AI to stretch the conversation, not replace it.
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Companies Could Soon Staff ‘Stubbornly Local’ Jobs With Workers 4,000 Miles Away
Companies once moved whole factories overseas to reduce labor costs. Now, workers a world away can operate local excavators, forklifts, and even humanoid robots with an internet connection.
Scientists Create AI Skin Patch That Acts Like an Instant Personal Doctor
A new skin-like computing patch developed at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) can analyze health data using artificial intelligence in an unprecedented way
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-create-ai-skin-patch-that-acts-like-an-instant-personal-doctor/
Artificial ‘leaf’ powers wireless biomedical device
Researchers developed a nanoplasmonic “leaf,” a wireless bioelectronic device they used to stimulate nerves and pace heartbeats in an animal model.
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-artificial-leaf-powers-wireless-biomedical.html
Your customers are starting to trust AI more than your experts
New data reveals how quickly consumer sentiment about AI-assisted planning is shifting.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91561961/your-customers-are-starting-to-trust-ai-more-than-your-experts
Electronics can now be printed onto living tissues
From cow femurs to replacement hips and even living leaves
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/24/electronics-can-now-be-printed-onto-living-tissues
The Digital Twin Revolution: Virtual Models That Actually Help You Decide
A digital twin is not just a dashboard, not just a 3D render, and not just a one-off simulation you run once and forget. It is a living virtual version of something real, an asset, a process, a system, even an environment, that keeps pulling in data from the physical world as things change.
https://bmmagazine.co.uk/business/the-digital-twin-revolution-virtual-models-that-actually-help-you-decide/
Sustaining a Shared Reality: How Past Technology Waves Have Impacted Strategy
