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Scenario prompts 15 April 2024
The topics are space, climate tech opportunities, modified pig hearts, embodied intelligence, cars as a service, adaptive durability, relevance, AI assistants (and never forgetting), Elvis and novel material startups.
Does your firm have a relevant business model for the future?
Space is booming. Here’s how to embrace the $1.8 trillion opportunity
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/04/space-economy-technology-invest-rocket-opportunity/
Space will be a larger part of the global economy (and will be combined with restorative economics).
Climate tech VCs want to hear these pitches
https://sifted.eu/articles/climate-tech-vc-pitches
Data centres, critical metals, modelling, supply chains, timber, power, mining, recycling, hydrogen and advance materials.
Modified Pig Hearts A Potential Solution To Organ Shortage Crisis
https://scienceblog.com/543606/modified-pig-hearts-a-potential-solution-to-organ-shortage-crisis/
In a groundbreaking development, xenotransplantation, or the transplantation of organs from one species to another, is on the verge of becoming a clinical reality.
AI-powered mini soccer star robot falls, gets up to dribble and score
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/ai-mini-soccer-star-robot
Advancing embodied intelligence
Recovering 216 hours per year: Tesla & Waymo
https://www.diamandis.com/blog/abundance-47-dawn-of-the-robo-chauffeur
With the rise of autonomous vehicles, the landscape of the auto industry is poised for a seismic shift. Currently home to over a hundred brands, the next decade will witness a substantial consolidation in the automotive realm.
Scientists Invented a Bizarre New Material That Gets Tougher When You Hit It
This ‘adaptive durability’, as it’s known, is an important characteristic in terms of the science of materials.
The 3 Relevances.
https://rishad.substack.com/p/the-3-relevances
- Does my firm have a relevant business model for the future?
- Does my company have the relevant organizational structure, talent mix and suppliers/partners to succeed tomorrow?
- Do we as leaders and practitioners have relevant skills and expertise to navigate the transformed world ?
Humans Forget. AI Assistants Will Remember Everything
https://www.wired.com/story/humans-forget-ai-assistants-remember-everything/
Digital assistants with access to everything you do on your phone can use that knowledge to remember the life details you’d otherwise forget. But with that great power comes great responsibility.
‘Elvis Evolution’ Immersive AI Hologram Show Coming to London in Winter 2024
The show promises to use a blend of “technology, augmented reality, theatre, projection and multi-sensory effects”.
Novel material startups to watch, according to investors
https://sifted.eu/articles/novel-material-startups-watch
Spider silk, synthetic leather, seaweed, hemp, wood strands, foam, recycled plastic, coating and ceramics.
