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Scenario prompts 6 December 2024
Today’s prompts are time crystals, rapid technological change, deep brain simulation, e-skin, brain mapping, wintering, hope, organic batteries, and bio printing.
Use the prompts to question relevance, opportunity vs threat, if vs when, timelines, impact and responses. Consider multiple futures and different time horizons.
Are you ready to winter?
Scientists Turned a Quantum Computer Into a Time Crystal
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a63071870/quantum-computer-time-crystal/
To improve resilience, a team of scientists from the U.S. and China leveraged the inherent stability of another quantum system known as a time crystal.
Are You Ready to Lead in a World of Rapid Technological Change?
https://www.burrus.com/2024/12/are-you-ready-to-lead-in-a-world-of-rapid-technological-change/
The answer lies in adopting an anticipatory mindset. Recognising hard trends—inevitable future facts—empowers us to prepare for and harness technology’s potential while mitigating its risks.
World-first: Deep brain stimulation enables paralyzed patient to walk again
The treatment promoted the reorganization of “residual nerve fibers,” which survive after the injury.
Soft e-skin utilizes magnetic fields to independently sense three-axis forces
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-soft-skin-magnetic-fields-independently.html
Highly performing e-skins could be used to enhance the capabilities of robots, to create new haptic interfaces and to develop more advanced prosthetics.
A New Method to Map the Brain: Infect It With a Virus
The human brain, have 100 billion neurons with100 trillion connections. It’s unclear if it’s even possible to complete such a massive project, or if our computing systems are up to the challenge of making sense of all the data it would yield.
The Art of Wintering: How to Find Strength in Slowing Down
https://nesslabs.com/wintering
As the end of the year settles in, you might notice a distinct downshift in energy, both in yourself and the world around you. Messages flood in about “finishing strong”, yet everything feels like it’s naturally winding down. Also have a look at https://www.ronimmink.com/strategy-development/
The Strategic Power of Hope
https://hbr.org/2024/12/the-strategic-power-of-hope
Hope provides a bulwark against this self-defeating behavior — and if leveraged appropriately, it can be a powerful force in helping organizations thrive.
Proton batteries: an innovative option for the future of energy storage
An eco-friendly, high-performance organic battery is being developed by scientists
10 times faster 3D bioprinting tech makes functional tissues in 40 mins
https://interestingengineering.com/science/3d-bioprinting-tech-makes-functional-tissues-faster
Researchers have created a new 3D bio-printing technique called High-throughput Integrated Tissue Fabrication System for Bioprinting (HITS-Bio).
