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Scenario prompts 27 May 2025
The scenario prompt for today is space. China is building a super computer in space. DARPA is looking at lunar rail. It is moonshot question (excuse the pun). If your company would be active in space, what would you do? What are the opportunities?
The other prompts are BTCIs, nano materials, AI blackmail, 4.5 million faster internet, conscious AI, infrastructure in 2100, and tissue printing.
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The government is funding a project to put a train on the moon
https://www.fastcompany.com/91066646/the-government-is-funding-a-project-to-put-a-train-on-the-moon
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency tapped Northrop Grumman to develop a concept for a lunar railroad. See https://www.ronimmink.com/innovation-managing-solid-fluid-superfluid-s-p-type-loonshots/
Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year
The stealthy startup thinks multiple simultaneous smaller brain implants could be better than one
New physics-defying nanomaterial gathers water from air directly
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/nanomaterial-pulls-water-from-air
The material works through capillary condensation, a phenomenon where water vapor turns into liquid within microscopic pores, even when the humidity is relatively low.
AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go
The AI model was capable of “extreme actions” if it thought its “self-preservation” was threatened.
4.5 million times faster internet? Aston University makes it possible
This rate is the fastest ever recorded, achieved by utilizing specific new wavelength bands that have not been previously used in fiber optic systems.
AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k3700zljjo
By learning the nature of consciousness, researchers hope to better understand what’s happening within the silicon brains of artificial intelligence. Some believe that AI systems will soon become independently conscious, if they haven’t already.
5 futures of infrastructure: What will we build by 2100?
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/05/5-futures-of-infrastructure-by-2100/
Circular and climate-robust ‘technosphere’, shared continent-wide mega-infrastructure, virtual and weaponized infrastructure, stranded, carbon locked-in infrastructure and a decentralized micro-infrastructure
3D-printed device enables precise modeling of complex human tissues in the lab
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05-3d-device-enables-precise-complex.html
A new, easily adopted, 3D-printed device will enable scientists to create models of human tissue with even greater control and complexity.
