Biomimetics and biohybrids….

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Scenario prompt 10 September 2025

The scenario prompts for today are molecular biomimetics (DNA computers) and biohybrid robots made with brain and muscle cells. Embodied, biological AI as a possibility. That is Blade Runner territory. Will that have immediate impact on your business model? Unlikely. But biotech will and sooner than you think.

The other prompts are 25 books on AI, chaotic systems, AI-to-AI persuasion, curing blindness, bitcoin, immortality and innovation support systems. 

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You are the upgrade

https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/

Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.

Agency in an Age of Uncertainty: Megatrends, Foresight, and Navigating New Frontiers

https://www.csis.org/analysis/agency-age-uncertainty-megatrends-foresight-and-navigating-new-frontiers

In chaotic systems, leaders face an uncomfortable reality: Control is an illusion. Demographics, water, energy, innovation, and geopolitics.

AI-to-AI persuasion will transform marketing in 2030

https://adage.com/trends-predictions/future-of-advertising-2030/aa-why-agencies-will-matter-more-in-2030-ai-first-ad-world/

By 2030, personal AI assistants will act as consumer proxies—screening offers, negotiating deals and trading attention for tangible value

Neuralink could restore partial vision to the blind next year

https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-neuralink-restore-partial-vision-blind-next-year/

Neuralink’s current implant, Telepathy, is already changing lives today, and the same will likely be true for Blindsight

Does Bitcoin Belong on Your Balance Sheet?

https://hbr.org/2025/09/does-bitcoin-belong-on-your-balance-sheet

You need to take a position. Also read https://www.ronimmink.com/will-blockchain-impact-your-business-model/

Putin says organ transplants could grant immortality. Not quite

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/05/1123113/putin-organ-transplants-immortality-longevity-replacement/

With the developments of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted, and people can live younger and younger, and even achieve immortality.

Why Innovation Dies At Work: The Support Leaders Need To Bring It Back

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dianehamilton/2025/09/08/why-innovation-dies-at-work-the-support-leaders-need-to-bring-it-back/

Innovation only lasts when there is a support system that moves any proposed idea beyond the meeting. That system must include ownership, process, and resources.

Molecular biomimetics: The cell nucleus as a model for DNA-based computer chips

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-molecular-biomimetics-cell-nucleus-dna.html

The von Neumann architecture is applied this principle to artificial, DNA-based computer chips to be able to control biotechnological and biomedical applications, for example.

This Crawling Robot Is Made With Living Brain and Muscle Cells

https://singularityhub.com/2025/09/09/this-crawling-robot-is-made-with-living-brain-and-muscles-cells/

One team engineered a swimming “stingray” bot using stem cell-derived neurons, heart muscle cells, and an electronic “brain.” Scientists combined the cells, and brain with an artificial skeleton to make a soft robot that could flap its fins and roam a swimming pool.