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Scenario prompts 30 July 2024
Today’s prompts are climate reporting, biomimicry, the reversal of technological progress, parasites as drug delivery to the brain, fractionalized employees, the first artificial brain, socially transformative businesses, dynamic shape-changing, 3D-printed blood vessels and my book about books about AI.
Are you a socially transformative business?
Why CFOs are now responsible for climate reporting
https://www.raconteur.net/finance/why-climate-reporting-is-falling-under-the-cfo-remit
Finance chiefs have found themselves thrust into the centre of their organisation’s sustainability efforts – but are they ready for this new responsibility?
Plant-Inspired Polymer Transforms Heavy Metal Removal From Water
https://scienceblog.com/546403/plant-inspired-polymer-transforms-heavy-metal-removal-from-water/
Biomimicry Leads to Breakthrough in Water Treatment
52 Reasons to Fear that Technological Progress Is Reversing
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/52-reasons-to-fear-that-technological
Tech is getting oppressive—almost to a malicious degree. It’s turning into a command-and-control empire for the benefit of the technologists.
How a Mind-Controlling Parasite Could Deliver Medicine to the Brain
The international team hijacked T. gondii’s natural, brain-targeting impulses to engineer two delivery systems
The Next Wave: Fractionalized Employees
https://rishad.substack.com/p/the-next-wave-fractionalized-employees
If the worker thinks with a Company of One mindset the company will think with a Fractionalized Employee mindset.
India shocks the world with Blue Brain Project: The first artificial brain and the first superhumans born
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/blue-brain-project-artificial-brain/4958/
The first artificial brain in history
The Power of Socially Transformative Business
https://www.bcg.com/publications/collections/socially-transformative-business
Private sector companies can advance progress on critical social issues while also improving competitive strength. This is the power—and the promise—of socially transformative business.
New technology allows robots to survive through self-amputation
https://www.techexplorist.com/new-technology-allows-robots-survive-through-self-amputation/86514/
The technology not only aids in robot survival, it enables dynamic shape-change.
3D-Printed Blood Vessels: A Game-Changer For Heart Bypass Surgery
https://scienceblog.com/546349/3d-printed-blood-vessels-a-game-changer-for-heart-bypass-surgery/
These gel-like tubes closely mimic the properties of human veins and could revolutionize heart bypass surgery, potentially improving outcomes for thousands of patients each year.
A book about books about AI
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
So far, taking the perspective from 22 books/authors covering intelligence (there are many forms), work, synthetic biology, transhumanism, economics, spiritualism, digital transformation, data, etc. When you go through the books again, you start to wonder if we are asking the right questions. Pre-order to stay in the loop.
