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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 2 May 2025
Todays prompts are 2D chips, living intelligence, gum tissues, printing super conductors, moon energy, molecular electronics, touch implants, and organic wires.
Explore living intelligence.
China’s ‘2D’ chip could soon be used to make silicon-free chips
Advances in materials and architecture could lead to silicon-free chip manufacturing thanks to a new type of transistor
Exploring “Living Intelligence,” a Merging of AI, Sensors, and Biotech
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/exploring-living-intelligence-merging-ai-sensors-and-biotech
Living intelligence is an emerging very, very early days, emerging area of science and technology that describes the interplay between artificial intelligence and sensor technology and biotechnology. And together this forms a new system of continual data ingestion, decision making and action.
NUS researchers combine 3D bioprinting and AI to create personalized gum tissue grafts
A research team has developed a new method for fabricating personalized gum tissue grafts using 3D bioprinting combined with artificial intelligence (AI)
Researchers 3D print high-temperature superconductors
https://www.voxelmatters.com/researchers-3d-print-high-temperature-superconductors/
This method is the first to fabricate 3D printed ceramic superconductors with a monocrystalline microstructure
Faroe Islands Space Program will harvest ‘Moon energy’ without ever going to space
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/faroe-island-space-program-moon-energy
At its core is Luna 12, a tidal kite that captures underwater currents off the Faroe Islands’ coast, converting them into renewable power.
Unique molecule may lead to smaller, more efficient computers
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-unique-molecule-smaller-efficient.html
Molecular electronics
Brain Implant Creates Realistic Touch Sensations in Paralyzed Hands
The findings open new possibilities for brain-computer interfaces that could eventually restore natural-feeling touch to prosthetic limbs. Also think AR and VR.
Tiny Organic Wires Shatter Electronics Barriers
https://scienceblog.com/tiny-organic-wires-shatter-electronics-barriers/
Physicists have created what may be the world’s most electrically conductive organic molecule.
