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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 2 April 2025
Todays prompts bee mimicking robots, trends in personal tech, self-organizing infomorphic neurons, AI enhanced BCIs, floating small nuclear reactors, AI doctors, AR, and augmented natural intelligence (ANI).
Augmentation everywhere.
World’s smallest: Bee-mimicking flying robot uses magnets to aid in search, rescue
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/world-smallest-wireless-flying-robot
The robot’s two magnets act as a propeller, using external magnetic fields for lift and precise flight control by adjusting field strength.
7 top trends to watch that are shaping the future of personal tech
Modular, health first, fashionable AR, democratized AI, transparent tech, and convergent computing.
Self-organizing ‘infomorphic neurons’ can learn independently
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-03-infomorphic-neurons-independently.html
Researchers have developed “infomorphic neurons” that learn independently, mimicking their biological counterparts more accurately than previous artificial neurons.
Brain implant translates thoughts to speech in an instant
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01001-6
Researchers enhanced the brain–computer interface (BCI) — with artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that decoded sentences as the woman thought of them, and then spoke them out loud using a synthetic voice.
These Floating Nuclear Reactors—Powered by Salt—Could Supercharge America’s Electrical Grid
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a64310351/molten-salt-nuclear-power/
The small nuclear power plants will use molten salt in their fuel, making them safer and more versatile and portable than traditional nuclear power plants.
Apple Readies Its Biggest Push Into Health Yet With New AI Doctor
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has maintained that, when all is said and done, his company’s greatest contribution to society will be in health care.
How Meta’s Upcoming $1,000+ Smart Glasses With a Screen Will Work
The glasses with screens will mark another stepping stone toward Meta’s vision of true augmented reality glasses, which the company previewed last year.
Augmented Natural Intelligence as the Only Way Forward
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