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Scenario prompts 16 September 2024
Today’s prompts are abundance, fusion, necromancer bots, sound wave technology, brain probes, consciousness, Software with a Soul, bio acoustics, embodied AI, the shared economy and haptic fingertip technology.
Biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms, what is next?
Embracing Business Model Innovation: The Shift from Scarcity to Abundance
Also read https://www.ronimmink.com/design-a-business-model-based-on-abundance/
UK Gives Sneak Peek of a Novel Fusion Reactor Shaped Like a Cored Apple
UK scientists have now provided a sneak peek of a novel reactor design that could be providing power to the grid by 2040.
Biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms − pushing the boundaries of life, death and medicine
But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the traditional boundaries of life and death.
Breakthrough in Virus Research Using Sound Wave Technology
https://nano-magazine.com/news/2024/9/12/breakthrough-in-virus-research-using-sound-wave-technology
Researchers described a novel approach to virus isolation using a technology that involves sound waves. These “acoustic tweezers” work to sort and separate viruses from other particles in biological fluid
Super flexible probes more accurately record brain activity
https://www.futurity.org/super-flexible-probes-record-brain-activity-3247922/
Researchers have developed ultra-flexible brain probes that accurately record brain activity without causing tissue damage.
Consciousness will slip through our fingers
https://dynomight.substack.com/p/consciousness
Also read https://www.ronimmink.com/artificial-intelligence-vs-natural-intelligence/
Software with a Soul: AI’s Underestimated Frontier
https://www.nfx.com/post/software-with-a-soul?
Software exhibiting a degree of humanness – a quality that is vastly underestimated in both founder and investor circles.
This AI model is helping researchers detect disease based on coughs
https://blog.google/technology/health/ai-model-cough-disease-detection/
How an bioacoustic foundation model may help improve health outcomes
Inside Google’s 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-mission-to-give-ai-robot-body/
Embodied AI is inevitable.
How the Sharing Economy is Revolutionizing Business and Society
https://www.webpronews.com/how-the-sharing-economy-is-revolutionizing-business-and-society/
The key to these companies’ success isn’t just their ability to innovate with technology but their capacity to flip asset-heavy business models on their heads.
Fingertip device enables realistic touch for a wide range of applications
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-09-fingertip-device-enables-realistic-wide.html
A fingertip device that closely mimics the sensation of interacting with real objects paves the way for applications in diagnosing loss of touch, video calls, robotic surgery and hazardous waste handling.
