#Mindcandy are scenario prompts prompts to help companies formulate strategy.
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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 1, 3, 5, and 10 years time horizons.
Scenario prompts 28 March 2025
Todays prompts are mixed reality windshields, Mars missions, transplanting pig livers in humans, the hidden power of unanswerable questions, the next 25 years, chatbot “friends”, housing, and 10 questions about sustainability.
Are you asking the right questions?
Military vehicles to get mixed reality windshields controlled by human eyes
https://thenextweb.com/news/military-vehicles-add-distance-mixed-reality-windshields
The system will display 3D tactical data, terrain mapping, and AI-driven military insights directly onto the windshield, allowing military personnel to see in low-visibility environments like darkness and smoke.
China: New method makes 98% oxygen from CO2, can pave way for future Mars missions
https://interestingengineering.com/science/china-electrochemical-method-splits-co2-oxygen
This technology has the potential to support underwater habitats as well as the development of advanced air purification systems.
Scientists Just Transplanted a Pig Liver Into a Person for the First Time
The liver in the study underwent heavy gene editing to rid it of genes that trigger immune rejection and add genes making it appear more human to the body.
The hidden power of unanswerable questions
https://bigthink.com/thinking/transformative-power-of-questions/
From Socrates to Zen masters, questions have been used to challenge assumptions, expand awareness, and spark transformation.
What is The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050?
https://www.freethink.com/artificial-intelligence/great-progression-2025-2050
We have a historic opportunity to harness AI and other transformative technologies in order to make a much better world in the next 25 years.
The rise of chatbot “friends”
Delusion, Bias and data privacy and manipulation issues, especially at scale, and deskilling.
America’s housing crisis gets high-tech upgrade with 3D printed, robot-built homes
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/builders-find-unique-solutions-to-us-housing-crisis
From 3D printing to factory-built homes to using hemp, builders are exploring unconventional methods to construct homes.
Investing In Sustainability: 10 Questions For Business Leaders
Risk, trade, trust, stakeholders, value, competition, leverage, reframing, profit, and story telling.
