Mind candy are prompts to help you to keep up to date, develop strategic responses to trends and train your change muscle, making you more resilient and agile for the future. If you need help with developing these prompts, you can book a free appointment here. If you want me to speak at your event, contact me at ron@ronimmink.com
How to use the prompts
Become a trend watcher yourself. Use these prompts to explore their relevance, assess opportunities and threats, and analyse timelines and impacts on your organisation. Consider multiple possible futures across varying time horizons—1, 3, 5, and 10 years.
Scenario prompts 16 January 2025
Todays prompts are predicting the future, the speed of thought (compared to computers), video games, the wisdom of the silicon crowd, uploading your soul, European start-ups to watch, quantum entanglement, tractor beams, and “living” sensors.
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Predict The Future
https://timduggan.substack.com/p/predict-the-future
AI everywhere, authenticity, the slow movement, fragmentation, fluidity, co-creation and cultural currency.
There’s a speed limit to human thought — and it’s ridiculously low
Human brains take in sensory data at more than 1 billion bits per second, but only process that information at a measly 10 bits per second, new research has found. The fastest computers today operate at speeds more than 10 quintillion (18 zeros) times faster than the human conscious processing speed
Study finds video games improve mental well-being
https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/study-finds-video-games-improve-mental-well-being/
Read https://www.ronimmink.com/gaming-as-a-source-of-innovation-and-engagement/
Can AI Predict the Future?
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/can-ai-predict-the-future/
The wisdom of the silicon crowd
Upload your soul so you can be a parrot forever
We have reached a point where your essence, that is your you-ness, is just another dataset to be mined.
25 European start-ups to watch in 2025
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/european-startups-europe-2025-tech-business-science
Robots, AI, mobility, cyber, pathology, drugs, wildfire detection, quantum, embolisation, spectroscopy, EV, communication, surgery, clinical trials, menopause, biopharma, IoT, fintech, photonics, space, ocean, and teacher recruitment.
‘Magic-wavelength optical tweezers’ achieve quantum entanglement of molecules
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-magic-wavelength-optical-tweezers-quantum.html
Researchers have successfully demonstrated long-lasting quantum entanglement between molecules, opening new doors for future advancements in quantum computing, sensing, and fundamental physics.
“Tractor Beam” Allows for Easier Optical Manipulation in Biological Experiments
https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/mit-photonics-chip-biological-experiments/
The tiny device relies on a silicon-photonics chip to generate a beam of light that can manipulate particles close to the chip’s surface.
Scientists Create ‘Living’ Electronic Sensor
https://scienceblog.com/553165/scientists-create-living-electronic-sensor/
In a significant advance that could transform the field of neural monitoring, researchers have developed a bioelectronic implant that grows and adapts alongside living tissue.
