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Scenario prompts 27 June 2024
Today’s prompts are AI, skin sensors, Kirigami, enriching books, barley plastic, single-cell manipulation with laser-powered microbots, cyberoctopus, intelligent life, ESM3 and restorative economics.
Apply restorative principles to your (future) business model
The Future Of AI, According To Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
Imperceptible Sensors Printed Directly on Human Skin
A new method to develop adaptive sensors takes its inspiration from spider silk, which can conform and stick to a range of surfaces.
Electricity-free mechanical computer goes beyond binary data storage
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/mechanical-computer-polymer-blocks
Kirigami-inspired design
Rebind enriches classic books with layers of AI-powered context and conversation
As readers make their way through a book, they can pause at any moment to engage the expert, or ‘Rebinder,’ in a chat, asking questions and receiving contextual insights drawn from hours of recordings.
Researchers invent 100% biodegradable ‘barley plastic’
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-biodegradable-barley-plastic.html
A biofriendly new material made from barley starch blended with fiber from sugarbeet waste—a strong material that turns into compost should it end up in nature—has been created
Single-cell manipulation with laser-powered microbots
https://superinnovators.com/2024/06/video-single-cell-manipulation-with-laser-powered-microbots/
Researchers have developed a novel family of soft microrobots for precise single-cell manipulation using elastic nanorods and laser tweezers.
New AI ‘CyberOctopus’ Learns Like Animals, Navigates And Explores On Its Own
The AI, dubbed ‘CyberOctopus’, combines the simple learning mechanisms of a sea slug with the more advanced memory capabilities of an octopus.
What is intelligent life?
https://aeon.co/essays/why-intelligence-exists-only-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder
Our human minds hold us back from truly understanding the many brilliant ways that other creatures solve their problems. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/beyond-human-intelligence/
ESM3: Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model
https://www.evolutionaryscale.ai/blog/esm3-release
ESM3 is trained across the natural diversity of the Earth—billions of proteins, from the Amazon rainforest, to the depths of the oceans, extreme environments like hydrothermal vents, and the microbes in a handful of soil.
Conservation and economic development go hand in hand, more often than expected
An analysis for more than 10,000 protected areas found simultaneous progress in both conservation and economic development in about half.
