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Scenario Prompt – 29 September 2025
If you want to understand what’s next, start by watching the language. New words signal new trends. Other rich sources of foresight include the military, venture capital, gaming, the sex industry, and startups. If you’re building your own information dashboard, make sure you include them.
Other prompts to expand your lens are:
- Solar-powered “artificial plants” that can purify radioactive soil in 20 days
- Biobots made from human lung cells
- A lab-grown brain with 800,000 neurons that plays Pong
- Quantum entanglement cutting learning cycles from millions of years to minutes
- The rising tension between technocrats and strategists
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.
Solar-powered ‘artificial plant’ purifies radioactive soil by 95% in 20 days
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/artificial-plant-cleans-radioactive-soil
The innovative device, which mimics a plant’s natural transpiration process, reduced cesium concentration in soil by over 95% in just 20 days. This offers a groundbreaking solution for cleaning up nuclear accident sites and contaminated agricultural land.
Designer biobots made from human lung cells
https://engineering.cmu.edu/news-events/news/2025/09/26-ciliabot.html
Microscale biological robots made from human lung cells are advancing, with new research showing control over their movement via engineered structural design.
Chatbait Is Taking Over the Internet
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/09/chatbait-ai-chatgpt-engagement/684300/
New words are an indication of trends.Lab-grown brain powered by 800,000 human neurons that plays Pong
Lab-grown brain powered by 800,000 human neurons that plays Pong
https://interestingengineering.com/science/lab-grown-brain-powered
Germany’s first neuron-based computer was unveiled at Fraunhofer IPA’s Biointelligence Summit.
Quantum Entanglement Slashes Learning Time From Millions Of Years To Minutes
Researchers have achieved something that sounds like science fiction: they’ve reduced a learning task that would take classical systems 20 million years to complete down to just 15 minutes. The secret weapon? Entangled light.
Technocrats vs. Strategists
https://rogermartin.medium.com/technocrats-vs-strategists-8462684297c3
Strategic CEOs define their jobs as solving the most important problems facing the organization — often alongside their direct reports but not simply by assigning those problems to direct reports.
