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Scenario prompts 22 April 2024
The topics are grassroots automation, insect farming, abundance, skyrmions, black hole batteries, Amazon (the CEO letter), business intelligence, brain implants, consciousness, neuromorphic computers and biocomputers (with human brain cells)
Combine skyrmions, brain implants, consciousness, neuromorphic computing and biocomputing. What will you get?
Is grassroots automation another word for citizen development?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/04/citizen-science-data-collection-training
All part of the citizen development movement.
From novelty to necessity? The evolution of insect farming
https://agfundernews.com/from-novelty-to-necessity-the-evolution-of-insect-farming
On paper, insect farming ticks all the right boxes. Black soldier fly larvae (BSFL), mealworms and crickets can transform food and agricultural waste into high-quality protein, oil and fertilizer at record speed with a fraction of the inputs required by other protein sources.
Elon on abundance, AI & human survival…
http://www.diamandis.com/blog/elon-abundance-ai-human-survival
It is better to err on the side of being optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.
Skyrmions move at record speeds: A step towards the computing of the future
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-skyrmions-future.html
An international research team has discovered that the magnetic nanobubbles known as skyrmions can be moved by electrical currents, attaining record speeds up to 900 m/s.
Physicists Say The Ultimate Battery Could Harness The Power of Black Holes
Micro black hole battery weighing just one kilogram could provide “enough energy for a family for generations” – approximately 470 million times the energy of the most efficient 200-kilogram lithium battery that currently exists.
CEO Andy Jassy’s 2023 Letter to Shareholders
https://www.aboutamazon.com.au/news/company-news/ceo-andy-jassys-2023-letter-to-shareholders
At our best, we’re not just customer obsessed, but also inventive, thinking several years out, learning like crazy, scrappy, delivering quickly, and operating like the world’s biggest start-up.
10 trends that will shape the future of business intelligence
https://www.celonis.com/blog/10-trends-that-will-shape-the-future-of-business-intelligence/
Augmented analytics, self service business intelligence, embedded analytics, data governance, data quality, collaborative BI, decision intelligence, mobile BI, data storytelling and process Intelligence.
The Next Frontier for Brain Implants Is Artificial Vision
Elon Musk’s Neuralink and others are developing devices that could provide blind people with a crude sense of sight.
Intel unveils largest-ever AI ‘neuromorphic computer’ that mimics the human brain
Intel’s Hala Point neuromorphic computer is powered by more than 1,000 new AI chips and performs 50 times faster than equivalent conventional computing systems.
Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare
A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness. Also read https://www.ronimmink.com/beyond-human-intelligence/
Human brain cells hooked up to a chip can do speech recognition
Clusters of brain cells grown in the lab have shown potential as a new type of hybrid bio-computer.
