#Mindcandy are scenario prompts to help companies formulate strategy. Find out more here.
Scenario prompt 22 July 2025
The prompt for today is shared values. You cannot compete on technology, you can compete on culture. Because of the ongoing technology abstraction, culture will be the last battleground for business.
The other scenario prompts are social media trends, for OS to DA, virtual showrooms, tiny nuclear reactors, artificial nerves, Europe´s future, and you are the upgrade.
If you want more details and the other prompts, you can visit my website or subscribe to my substack.
What’s really changing in social media? Start with these 10 trends
Authenticity, influencers, AI, social search, short video, reactive listening, IRL activation, digital detox, and community.
Most AI Interaction Will Go Through Your DA
https://danielmiessler.com/blog/stages-of-app
Why your AI Assistant, not your OS, will be the final destination for most AI functionality
How Virtual Showrooms Are Transforming The Future Of Shopping
How Virtual Showrooms Are Transforming the Future of Shopping
Virtual showrooms are changing the way people shop in all kinds of industries, technologies, and ways of buying things.
The U.S. Is Testing Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Can Go Practically Anywhere
Compact, energy-efficient microreactors could soon help generate electricity for remote locations.
Robots can now feel difference between pat and punch with new artificial nerves
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/robots-feel-difference-between-pat-and-punch
KAIST has unveiled a neuromorphic semiconductor-based artificial sensory nervous system that lets robots ignore safe, familiar stimuli and react quickly to dangerous ones, much like living organism
When You Fail To Forge Shared Values, Your Vision Will Fail Too
https://digitaltonto.com/2025/when-you-fail-to-forge-shared-values-your-will-vision-fail-too/
Culture is the last battleground for business.
Europe’s futures
https://farsight.cifs.dk/europes-futures-four-scenarios/
Four scenarios for the next decade
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.
