Are you ready for chaosterity?

Mind candy are prompts to help you to keep up to date, develop strategic responses to trends and train your change muscle, making you more resilient and agile for the future. If you need help with developing these prompts, you can book a free appointment here. If you want me to speak at your event, contact me at ron@ronimmink.com

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 3 February 2025

Todays prompts are a carbon coin, the new Medici effect, rugged circuits, artificial endosymbiosis, Power-Over-Skin, augmented reality, and chaosterity (a depressing read).

Are you ready for chaosterity?

Why economists think monitored carbon could underpin global currency

https://www.envirotech-online.com/news/portable-field-testing/43/international-environmental-technology/why-economists-think-monitored-carbon-should-underpine-global-currency/63901

Finally, the carbon coin. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/the-ministry-for-the-future/

The new Medici effect: How no-code tools are sparking the next wave of innovation

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkoukh3uje

Innovation, entrepreneurship, and groundbreaking ideas often come from an unexpected place – the intersection of different fields.

From roots to rugged circuits: the future of flexible electronics unveiled

https://southeast.newschannelnebraska.com/story/52299204/from-roots-to-rugged-circuits-the-future-of-flexible-electronics-unveiled

A printing technology, inspired by the resilience of tree root systems, is set to redefine the future of conformal electronics.

Scientists Re-Create the Conditions That Sparked Complex Life

https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-recreate-the-conditions-that-sparked-complex-life/

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.

Tech transmits power through the body for wearable devices

https://www.futurity.org/power-over-skin-transmits-power-through-body-wearable-devices-3266732/

Researchers have developed new technology they call Power-Over-Skin that allows electricity to travel through the human body.

Meta’s plan is working: Augmented reality is back

https://mixed-news.com/en/augmented-reality-comeback/

After years of relative quiet, a new race for augmented reality glasses has begun, involving all the major tech players.

The Age of Chaosterity, or How Bad It’s Going to Be Over the Next Few Years

https://www.theissue.io/the-age-of-chaosterity-or-how-bad-its-going-to-be-over-the-next-few-years/?ref=the-issue-newsletter

Chaosterity. That’s a combination of “chaos” and austerity.

sensemaking cover

WHY REINVENT THE WHEEL AND WHY NOT LEARN FROM THE BEST BUSINESS THINKERS? AND WHY NOT USE THAT AS A PLATFORM TO MAKE BETTER BUSINESS DECISIONS? ALONE OR AS A TEAM.

Sense making; morality, humanity, leadership and slow flow. A book about the 14 books about the impact and implications of technology on business and humanity.

Ron Immink

I help companies by developing an inspiring and clear future perspective, which creates better business models, higher productivity, more profit and a higher valuation. Best-selling author, speaker, writer.

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