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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 4 April 2025
Todays prompts are accountability, organoids, quantum cameras, material science, the smallest pacemaker, innovation trends , startup or spinout, solar on the moon, Minecraft, mutualism, and science fiction.
Democratizing Data to Hold Polluters Accountable
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/democratizing-data-holding-polluters-accountable
Full transparency will expose flawed business models.
Organoid model integrates microglia to study inflammation in brain
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-organoid-microglia-inflammation-brain.html
Organoids have revolutionized science and medicine, providing platforms for disease modeling, drug testing, and understanding developmental processes.
Quantum camera safely captures first image of mammal embryo; can aid in IVF
https://interestingengineering.com/science/quantum-camera-capture-mammalian-embryo
Scientists have used some of the most sophisticated quantum cameras to capture life at its first moment
Scientists merge two ‘impossible’ materials into new artificial structure
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-scientists-merge-impossible-materials-artificial.html
Researchers has merged two lab-synthesized materials into a synthetic quantum structure once thought impossible to exist and produced an exotic structure expected to provide insights that could lead to new materials at the core of quantum computing.
World’s smallest pacemaker is activated by light
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/03/worlds-smallest-pacemaker-is-activated-by-light/
Engineers have developed a pacemaker so tiny that it can fit inside the tip of a syringe — and be non-invasively injected into the body.
The future of innovation: 11 key technology trends shaping 2025
AI, quantum, blockchain, cyber, hyperautomation, digital twins, edge, 5G, extended reality, and sustainability.
Startup Or Spinout? Choosing The Right Path
https://innov8rs.co/news/startup-or-spinout-choosing-the-right-path/
Choosing between building a venture internally or seeking external partnerships is a strategic decision and critical to long-term success.
These Solar Cells Are Made of Moon Dust. They Could Power Future Lunar Colonies
Combining “moonglass” with just two pounds of perovskite from Earth would yield 4,300 square feet of solar panels.
AI masters Minecraft: DeepMind program finds diamonds without being taught
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01019-w
The Dreamer system reached the milestone by ‘imagining’ the future impact of possible decisions.
The Next Generation of Mutualism
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/mutualism-next-generation
An ecosystem approach to investing in and supporting mutualist enterprises—from the ground up.
The Seth Godin interview: What I learned about the long view from sci-fi legends
That is why everyone should read Neal Asher views on AI.
