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Scenario prompts 6 November
Use the prompts to question things such as relevance, opportunity vs threat, if vs when, timelines, impact and responses. Consider multiple futures.
Today’s prompts are the textile energy grids, innovation, AI wedges, teleportation, soft hydrogel semiconductors, plant-animal hybrid cells and graphene brain-computer interfaces.
Combine hydrogel semiconductor with plant-animal hybrid cells. Think in extremes and set a time horizon.
Textile energy grid charges wirelessly, can transform wearables, eradicate battery needs
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/textile-energy-grid-charges-wirelessly
Researchers have made use of nanomaterials to develop the next-gen of textiles that support wireless charging technology
APAC’s tech revolution: 8 trends shaping the future of global innovation
https://e27.co/apacs-tech-revolution-8-trends-shaping-the-future-of-global-innovation-20241029/
Vertical AI, electrification, humanoids, payments, cradle-to-cradle, edge and quantum.
Progress, not penance: Why technological innovation is the solution to our biggest problems
https://www.rethinkx.com/blog/progressnotpenance
The superiority of technological solutions lies not just in their effectiveness, but in their preservation of human freedom and dignity.
Drinking Milkshakes: How AI Wedges Will Help Startups Outmaneuver Incumbents
https://a16z.com/ai-wedges-will-help-startups-outmaneuver-incumbents/
LLMs can enable experiences that capture data at the point of creation in ways that were impossible for traditional software.
Scientists Want to Teleport a Whole Human. A Quantum Breakthrough Could Make It Reality.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a62776863/quantum-teleportation-breakthrough/
There’s just one catch: every atom in your body would be fully disassembled to the quantum level, effectively leaving your original body totally destroyed.
Soft hydrogel semiconductors with augmented biointeractive functions
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp9314
Combining semiconducting properties with hydrogel designs can enhance biointeractive functions and intimacy at biointerfaces
Plant-animal hybrid cells make solar-powered tissues, organs or meat
https://newatlas.com/biology/plant-animal-hybrid-cells-solar-powered/
Scientists in Japan have created hybrid plant-animal cells, essentially making animal cells that can gain energy from sunlight like plants.
Graphene-chip implant in UK trial could transform brain tumour surgery
The brain-computer interface (BCI) device has been designed and fabricated by an international team of scientists in order to transform the monitoring of electrical impulses of cells in the brain by using frequencies that previously could not be detected.
