Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SIGNALS” to find out more. AI is coding us into a corner. Companies are using AI to repair decades of technical debt. But the code is now being
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For years, governments have postponed maintenance, avoided difficult reforms, protected broken systems, and congratulated themselves for managing decline. Now the bill has arrived. Electricity grids are at capacity in too many places and cannot absorb new generation or accommodate new demand. Water systems are ageing. Roads, drainage, sewage networks, hospitals, and public buildings need serious
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I use the #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SESSION” if you want to find out more. How The Green Renaissance Can Unlock A $4 Trillion Bio Economy The next industrial revolution may be grown,
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For three years, I told business leaders to pay attention to AI. That advice was correct. It was also incomplete. In February 2026, I reviewed a book called Superconvergence. Its thesis reframed everything I thought I understood about where technology was heading. AI is not the main event. It is the warm-up act. The main
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We keep asking whether AI will replace human beings. That is the wrong question. The more immediate danger is that human beings stop doing the intellectual work required to remain worth augmenting. AI is not developing in isolation. It is accelerating alongside quantum computing, programmable biology, robotics, materials science, and energy technology. English is becoming
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An overview of the digital transformation #mindcandy in July 2026: AI welfare is a governance question now. Models act agentic and appear conscious. Policies on testing, control, and treatment aren’t optional anymore. Cognitive debt accumulates. Output rises. Judgement, creativity, and the ability to explain a conclusion quietly erode. AI lock-in is organisational lock-in. Dependency lives
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An overview of the #mindcandy in July 2026: Natural capital becomes a balance-sheet issue — environmental damage and resource dependency move from externalities to material business risk. 3D printing moves into mainstream operations — additive manufacturing shifts from innovation experiment to production, supply-chain, and product-design capability. Science fiction becomes operating reality — biological computing, synthetic
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AI agents. Semantic infrastructure. Tactile robots. Wearables. Brain-computer interfaces. Programmable biology. 3D printing. Superintelligence. But they pointed to the same underlying issue: Organisations are gaining technological capability while losing the ability to understand, challenge, and control what they are becoming. That is the real strategic risk. AI is becoming infrastructure AI is moving beyond productivity
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Use #Mindcandy as a strategic sensing engine to help leadership teams identify the signals they are missing. It fuels the strategic conversation about what is next. DM “SIGNALS” to find out more. There is a one-in-five chance of AI killing millions Most boards discuss AI risk in terms of hallucinations, data leakage, bias and compliance.
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AI is everywhere. And it is a perfect start-up tool. Particularly in helping answer the same fundamental questions start-ups always have: Who is my customer? What problem can I help them solve? How do I make money and build a sustainable, profitable business? “The Experimentation Machine: Finding Product-Market Fit in the Age of AI” According
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