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How to use the prompts
Become a trend watcher yourself. Use these prompts to explore their relevance, assess opportunities and threats, and analyse timelines and impacts on your organisation. Consider multiple possible futures across varying time horizons—1, 3, 5, and 10 years.
Scenario prompts 24 March 2025
Todays prompts are innovative companies in AI, the death of the CEO, autonomous platforms, red onions, AI enhanced BCI, the future of energy, multimodal cities, consciousness, AR and VR, and 3D photonic-electronics.
AI enhanced brain computer interfaces…….. (soon QAIBCI)
The most innovative companies in artificial intelligence for 2025
https://www.fastcompany.com/91269023/artificial-intelligence-most-innovative-companies-2025
Why Nvidia, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Microsoft are among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2025.
The Death of the CEO: How Basetis Rewrote the Rules of Work
https://www.corporate-rebels.com/blog/the-death-of-the-ceo-how-basetis-rewrote-the-rules-of-work
Eliminate bottlenecks, replace control with trust, transparency, and embrace ‘productive flexibility.
US tech can turn military vehicles into robot trucks that can work autonomously
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/us-firm-autonomous-ground-vehicles
SPARK is a comprehensive autonomy that can transform any ground vehicle into a fully autonomous platform.
Red onion waste becomes powerful solar cell shield that blocks 99.9% of UV rays
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/uv-protection-onion-film-solar-cell
The bio-based UV filter maintained over 80% light transmission at longer wavelengths, making it a promising alternative for solar cells.
Synchron’s Brain-Computer Interface Now Has Nvidia’s AI
https://www.wired.com/story/synchrons-brain-computer-interface-now-has-nvidias-ai/
The company has partnered with Nvidia to develop “cognitive AI,” which it says will allow people with severe physical disabilities to have more natural interactions with the world around them.
4 technologies that could power the future of energy
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/19/1113381/energy-technology-lasers-steel-batteries/
Lasers, rocks, magnets and batteries.
Beyond Today’s Smart Cities: Building A Multimodal Metropolis
Picture a city where AI anticipates your needs before you even voice them.
Conscious ‘Alien Minds’ Could Be Living Among Us—And We Don’t Even Know It, Scientist Says
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a64256061/consciousness-michael-levin/
That is why “Beyond intelligence” is part of my book about books about AI. See https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
What’s New in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality?
AI is dominating corporate tech, but enhanced reality technologies like AR and VR are still evolving. Chief information officers shouldn’t lose track of their business potential.
Next-generation AI hardware: 3D photonic-electronic platform boosts efficiency and bandwidth
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-generation-ai-hardware-3d-photonic.html
Researchers have unveiled a groundbreaking solution: a 3D photonic-electronic platform that achieves unprecedented energy efficiency and bandwidth density, paving the way for next-generation AI hardware.
