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Scenario prompt 11 August 2025
The prompt for today is Mo Gawdat. Author of “Solve for happy” and “Scary smart”. AI is no longer a curiosity, or a plot line in a sci-fi film. It’s revolutionizing the way people live and work. For example, he thinks your job as a CEO is also at risk. When he speaks, you should listen.
The other prompts are Unilever, care bots, nuclear reactors on the moon, living for a 1,000 years, 20 future tech trends, supply chains, lunar cities, and you are the upgrade.
If you want more details and the other prompts, you can visit my website or subscribe to my substack.
Inside Unilever’s AI beauty marketing assembly line — and its implications for agencies
Unilever’s been building a generative AI assembly line for its digital creative. The system might offer a model for heavyweight brand peers, but could also cause a headache for creative agencies.
Ex-Google exec: The idea that AI will create new jobs is ’100% crap’—even CEOs are at risk of displacement
Follow Mo Gawdat. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/scary-smart-why-we-are-all-jonathan-and-marta-kent-raising-superman/
GR-3 humanoid robot debuts with emotional awareness and lifelike body movement
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/fourier-gr3-carebot-robot-emotion
Care is the code.
A nuclear reactor on the moon? USA races to deploy nuclear power in space amid China-Russia push
The United States is reportedly fast-tracking its efforts to establish nuclear power systems on the Moon, and eventually on Mars, according to new details released this week.
Humans Could Live For 1,000 Years by 2050—Ushering in the Dawn of ‘Practical Immortality,’ Futurists Say
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a65637132/immortality-singularity/
Breakthroughs in AI, robotics, and digital consciousness transfer that could make “practical immortality” a reality by mid-century.
20 Future Tech Trends That Could Change Your Life By 2030
https://www.newtraderu.com/2025/08/10/20-future-tech-trends-that-could-change-your-life-by-2030/
AI, MR, quantum. self driving cars, BCIs, robots, etc.
Use AI to Stress Test Your Supply Chain
https://hbr.org/2025/08/use-ai-to-stress-test-your-supply-chain
Stress testing a supply chain is important for identifying supply chain vulnerabilities so actions to mitigate them can be taken.
Solar powered moon brick factory could build future lunar cities
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-solar-powered-moon-brick-factory.html
The device works like a 3D printer powered by concentrated sunlight, turning lunar soil (known as regolith) into strong construction bricks without needing any materials from Earth.
You are the upgrade
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
