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How to use the prompts
Become a trend watcher yourself. Use these prompts to explore their relevance, assess opportunities and threats, and analyse timelines and impacts on your organisation. Consider multiple possible futures across varying time horizons—1, 3, 5, and 10 years.
Scenario prompts 18 March 2025
Todays prompts are wicked problems, robots doing exercises, artificial muscles, Jane McGonigal, supersolid light, light-powered artificial neurons, feeling virtual worlds, coach bots, ultrasonics, and biohybrids.
Create your own deja vu of the future
Wicked problems need an inter-disciplinary approach
https://www.cultivatedmanagement.com/wicked-problems-need-an-inter-disciplinary-approach/
Bringing people together from different disciplines is an effective way to solve wicked systemic problems.
Robots to soon require exercises like humans for more strength, lifelike agility
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/robots-to-require-exercises-like-humans
The latest system proposed by Chinese researchers relies on electrodes to deliver uniform electrical stimulation to promote muscle contraction and growth.
Artificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots
MIT engineers developed a way to grow artificial tissues that look and act like their natural counterparts.
How to see the future coming — and prepare for it
https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_how_to_see_the_future_coming_and_prepare_for_it
As a futurist who helps people prepare for all different kinds of possibilities, Jane McGonigal thinks we overuse words like “unthinkable” and “unimaginable. Also read https://www.ronimmink.com/create-your-own-deja-vu-of-the-future/
World First: Physicists Create a Supersolid Out of Light
https://www.sciencealert.com/world-first-physicists-create-a-supersolid-out-of-light
Supersolids are a strange quantum state of matter that combines properties of solids and liquids. Now they’ve gotten even more mind-bending, as scientists have transformed light itself into a supersolid.
New Wearable Device Allows You To “Feel” Virtual Worlds
https://scitechdaily.com/new-wearable-device-allows-you-to-feel-virtual-worlds/
A team of engineers has developed a new wearable device that stimulates the skin to deliver a range of complex sensations.
Light-powered artificial neurons mimic brain-like oscillations
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-powered-artificial-neurons-mimic-brain.html
Neurons in biological systems rely on rhythmic burst firing for sensory encoding, pattern recognition, and network synchronization, functions that depend on oscillatory activity for signal transmission and processing.
The AI chatbots offering workplace counsel
https://www.ft.com/content/ede799c4-8a1c-4c39-8a9b-01899d5b6754
Virtual mentors offer cheaper — but more limited — advice to executives
End Of Headphones? New ‘Audible Enclaves’ Deliver Sound Only to Your Ears
https://studyfinds.org/audible-enclaves-sound-waves-penn-state/
Researchers created “audible enclaves,” localized sound spots that only targeted listeners can hear, using intersecting ultrasonic beams that bend around obstacles like human heads.
A “biohybrid” robotic hand built using real human muscle cells
Biohybrid robots work by combining biological components like muscles, plant material, and even fungi with non-biological materials.
