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How to use the prompts
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 8 April 2025
Todays prompts are Deepak Chopra, CFOs, biomanufacturing, bioprinting gums, A tiny sensor to control devices with your thoughts, geothermal, space based solar, strategy fatigue, cybersecurity for medical implants, quantum entanglement, the most advance microchip, and the de-extinction of the dire wolf.
Avoid strategy fatigue, use scenario prompts.
Mystical Ideas Can Change Your Life
https://www.deepakchopra.com/articles/mystical-ideas-can-change-your-life/
You are the upgrade. See https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
The CFO role has always been demanding, but finance chiefs are reaching a breaking point
https://www.raconteur.net/finance/cfo-reaching-breaking-point
In the face of mounting stress, immense scrutiny and slumping shares, it’s little wonder that finance chiefs are questioning whether the role is still worth it
We have the corn: America’s secret advantage in the bioindustrial revolution
Biomanufacturing, or the process of using biological systems to produce chemicals, materials, and even food, is poised to transform the global economy.
NUS Researchers Develop AI-Enhanced 3D Bioprinted Gum Grafts
https://3dprinting.com/news/nus-researchers-develop-ai-enhanced-3d-bioprinted-gum-grafts/
Researchers have created a new method for producing personalized gum grafts using 3D bioprinting combined with artificial intelligence.
This Brain-Computer Interface Is So Small It Fits Between the Follicles of Your Hair
A tiny sensor to control devices with your thoughts—no surgery required.
The Hottest Thing in Clean Energy
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/04/geothermal-energy-boom/682291/
Little of America’s energy comes from geothermal sources, but that could change quickly.
Space-based solar power closer than ever as US startup readies orbit test in 2026
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/space-based-solar-power-by-2026
Aetherflux’s satellites are designed to collect solar power and then beam it down to Earth using lasers
How to Prevent Strategy Fatigue
https://hbr.org/2025/04/how-to-prevent-strategy-fatigue
Make it dynamic (and enjoyable). Scenario planning is getting harder—and more essential.
Cutting-edge cybersecurity for medical implants
https://springwise.com/healthy-society/cutting-edge-cybersecurity-for-medical-implants/
As medical technology moves toward wirelessly connected, smart implants, there is growing concern about the possibility of them getting hacked. What if a brain implant designed to help control seizures is interrupted?
Researchers Discover A New Type Of Quantum Entanglement
https://scienceblog.com/565085/researchers-discover-a-new-type-of-quantum-entanglement
This is the first discovery of a new quantum entanglement in more than 20 years, and it may lead in the future to the development of new tools for the design of photon-based quantum communication and computing components, as well as to their significant miniaturization.
The ‘World’s Most Advanced Microchip’ Has Been Unveiled
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-most-advanced-microchip-has-been-unveiled
It represents a major step forward in performance and efficiency – potentially reshaping the technological landscape.
Dire Wolves Have Just Been Brought Back From Extinction — and No This Isn’t Some ‘Game of Thrones’ Fantasy
In a stunning scientific development, the prehistoric canines made famous in the hit HBO show have been announced as the world’s first de-extinct animal.
