Biohybrids, neuromorphic and lab-grown, are you ready for the bio-economy?

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 28 January 2025

Todays prompts are nano materials, trends, biohybrid robots, holodecks, agentic AI, death star, Ponies, Unicorns, Godzillas, Dinosaurs, King Kongs and Phoenixes, neuromorphics, living electronics, lab grown sperm and eggs.

Biohybrids, neuromorphic and lab-grown, are you ready for the bio-economy?

Strong as steel, light as foam: Machine learning and nano-3D printing produce breakthrough high-performance, nano-architected materials

https://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/strong-as-steel-light-as-foam-machine-learning-and-nano-3d-printing-produce-breakthrough-high-performance-nano-architected-materials/

A team describes how they made nanomaterials with properties that offer a conflicting combination of exceptional strength, light weight and customizability.

5 Trends That Will Dominate Tech, Media & IP in 2025

https://riskandinsurance.com/5-trends-that-will-dominate-tech-media-ip-in-2025/

Trade secrets, digital assets, AI driven content boom, space and green tech.

Plant and fungi parts help robots level up

https://www.snexplores.org/article/plant-fungi-biohybrid-robots

These biohybrid life-forms are giving machines new sensing and self-healing capabilities  

The tech to build the holodeck 

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/19/24345491/gaussian-splats-3d-scanning-scaniverse-niantic

Gaussian splatting, a new way of capturing 3D content, is taking the AR / VR industry by storm — and could one day allow anyone to create photorealistic 3D world.

Why Agentic AI Will Soon Make ChatGPT Look Like A Simple Calculator

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2025/01/20/why-agentic-ai-will-soon-make-chatgpt-look-like-a-simple-calculator/

The next evolution of AI that will fundamentally change how machines interact with our world.

Chinese Scientists Have Developed a Powerful New Microwave Weapon: A Converged Energy Beam

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a63541699/china-death-star-microwave-beam-weapon/

China’s military says it tested a weapon much like the Death Star laser that could destroy a satellite.

Ponies, Unicorns, Godzillas, Dinosaurs, King Kongs and Phoenixes

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ponies-unicorns-godzillas-dinosaurs-king-kongs-peter-hinssen-bbtqe/

There’s more between heaven and earth than Phoenixes and Unicorns.

Brain-Inspired Chips Could Slash AI’s Soaring Energy Appetite

https://scienceblog.com/553404/brain-inspired-chips-could-slash-ais-soaring-energy-appetite/

Neuromorphic computing is particularly relevant today, when we are witnessing the untenable scaling of power- and resource-hungry AI systems.

How living electronics could heal bodies and minds

https://www.futurity.org/bioelectronics-podcast-3265622/

Imagine a future in which Band-Aids talk to your cells, pacemakers are powered by light, and your gut microbiome gets a tune-up—all thanks to tiny bioelectric devices.

Lab-grown sperm, eggs may soon allow parents to customize their future children

https://interestingengineering.com/health/lab-grown-gametogenesis-hfea-advisory

Scientists are close to growing human eggs and sperm in a lab.

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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.

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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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