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Scenario prompts 11 December 2024
Today’s prompts are self healing fibres, tech trends, GTA6, retail trends, 2025 macro themes, muscle implants, bio-printing and AI empower citizen development.
Use the prompts to question relevance, opportunity vs threat, if vs when, timelines, impact and responses. Consider multiple futures and different time horizons.
Study the gaming industry.
Scalable fibers with light-emitting, self-healing and magnetic properties could enhance human-robot interactions
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-scalable-fibers-emitting-magnetic-properties.html
The scalable hydrogel-clad ionotronic nickel-core electroluminescent (SHINE) fiber is bendable, emits highly visible light, and can automatically repair itself after being cut, regaining nearly 100% of its original brightness. In addition, the fiber can be powered wirelessly and manipulated physically using magnetic forces.
Biggest tech trends to expect in 2025: AI, agents, and AR, oh my!
https://www.techradar.com/tech/biggest-tech-trends-to-expect-in-2025-ai-agents-and-ar-oh-my
AI, chips, wearables, AR, social media, EVs, tariffs and robots.
Grand Theft Auto VI Will Rule the Video Game Industry in 2025
Study the gaming industry.
Seven retail trends for 2025
https://www.raconteur.net/economy-trends/seven-retail-trends-for-2025
Department stores, vertical integrated farming, resale, rentals, print, near shoring, data and formal ware.
2025 Macro Themes + 2024 Signals Review
https://mailchi.mp/futuretodayinstitute/2024-annual-letter
Technology supercycles, living intelligence, PLAMs, CLAMs, and GLAMs, alliances, crypto, quantum, weather, climate, nuclear, chaos and geopolitics.
Muscle Implants Could Allow Mind-Controlled Prosthetics—No Brain Surgery Required
The company is building a thin, flexible muscle implant to allow amputees a wider, more natural range of movement just by thinking about the gestures they want to make.
New bioprinting technology increases efficiency and precision in tissue production
Using a process based on spheroids it was possible to print tissue ten times faster than with previous methods. This opens up new possibilities in regenerative medicine and could even enable the production of functional organs in the long term.
How AI-empowered ‘citizen developers’ help drive digital transformation
A shortage of software talent and a rise in user-friendly automation technologies have companies cultivating “citizen developers” — nontechnical employees who use domain expertise and creativity to develop apps, configure automations, and build data analyses that can drive value across the enterprise.
