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How to use the prompts
Use these prompts to explore their relevance, assess opportunities and threats, and analyse timelines and impacts on your organisation. Consider multiple possible futures across 1, 3, 5, and 10 years time horizons.
Scenario prompts 7 April 2025
Todays prompts are fungi, biomimetics, Schrödinger cat, wearable trends, video gaming, complexity, Singapore, synthetic bone and meta materials.
Complexity increases over time.
Scientists create ‘fungi tiles’ with elephant skin texture to cool buildings
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-04-scientists-fungi-tiles-elephant-skin.html
These wall tiles are made from a new biomaterial combining fungi’s root network—called mycelium—and organic waste.
Biomimetic Five-Armed Wearable Sensor Achieves High-Fidelity Heart Monitoring During Movement
Engineers at the University of Missouri have developed an innovative wearable heart monitor inspired by starfish biology.
Hot Schrödinger cat states created
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-hot-schrdinger-cat-states.html
A research team from Innsbruck, Austria, has now succeeded in creating so-called hot Schrödinger cat states in a superconducting microwave resonator.
The Future of Wearable Technology in 2025 and Beyond
https://www.bizzbuzz.news/technology/the-future-of-wearable-technology-in-2025-and-beyond-1357531
Earbuds, smart rings, biometric clothing, smart glasses, embedded wearables and privacy
‘Video Games Are The Most Exciting Medium For Storytelling’
Advances in technology that has allowed video games to create more detailed worlds and subsequently, more realistic narrative themes.
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-everything-in-the-universe-turns-more-complex-20250402/
A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.
Singapore surpasses San Francisco as world’s top hyper-growth startup hub
https://e27.co/singapore-surpasses-san-francisco-as-worlds-top-hyper-growth-startup-hub-20250404/
Singapore overtakes San Francisco as the top startup hub, as investors shift focus to sustainability, strategic partnerships, and long-term growth.
Scientists Successfully 3D Print Bones at Nano Level
https://3dprinting.com/news/scientists-successfully-3d-print-bones-at-nano-level/
Researchers have developed a new 3D printing technique that can recreate synthetic bone at the nanoscale level. The method allows for precise control of grain size and porosity during printing, mimicking the complex architecture of natural bone.
160x More Power From a Twist: The Metamaterial Breakthrough Redefining Energy Storage
Metamaterials are materials designed with structures not found in nature. By arranging carefully engineered building blocks, researchers can create materials with enhanced or unusual properties.
