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Scenario prompts 7 October 2024

Use the prompts to question things such as relevance, opportunity vs threat, if vs when, timelines, impact and responses. Consider multiple futures.

Today’s prompts are smell-o-vision, tiny surgical robots, war and gaming, BioDT, robotic baristas, curing blindness, artificial wombs, artificial plants, CEOs, and organisational design.

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The Idea of Smell-O-Vision Has Been Around for Over a Century. AI May Finally Make It Work

https://thespoon.tech/the-idea-of-smell-o-vision-has-been-around-for-over-a-century-ai-may-finally-make-it-work/

One potential application Wiltschko describes is “teleporting scent,” where we’ll be able to capture a smell from one part of the world and digitally transfer it to another. 

Tiny robot convoy conducts successful endoscopic surgery in a medical first

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/robot-convoy-conducts-endoscopic-surgery

In a first-of-its-kind development, a robotic convoy was used to perform a minimally invasive endoscopic microsurgery. This was achieved using several millimeter-sized robots called TrainBots.

This Video Game Controller Has Become the US Military’s Weapon of Choice

https://www.wired.com/story/fmcu-us-military-controller/

After decades of relying on buttons, switches, and toggles, the Pentagon has embraced simple, ergonomic video-game-style controllers already familiar to millions of potential recruits.

Researchers develop Biodiversity Digital Twins to model our planet’s life

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-biodiversity-digital-twins-planet-life.html

The BioDT project aims to revolutionize our understanding of biodiversity dynamics by integrating advanced modeling, simulation, and prediction capabilities. 

China’s robotic baristas brewing fast, cost-effective coffee, can transform industry

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/robotic-baristas-cofe-brewing-coffee

It has been installed in over 500 locations, including hospitals, museums,  bookstores, temples, tourist hotspots, and research institutes in China.

Stem cell transplant gives hope for treating age-related sight loss

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2450479-stem-cell-transplant-gives-hope-for-treating-age-related-sight-loss/

A transplant of human stem cells sealed a hole in a monkey’s retina, which seems to have improved its vision, offering hope for a new approach to treat a type of age-related sight loss.

To Be Born in a Bag

https://press.asimov.com/articles/artificial-wombs

At least one research group is working on a system to grow a fetus from embryo to birth entirely outside the womb, a concept known as ectogenesis.

Artificial plant generates electricity to power devices, cleans indoor air

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/plant-generates-electricity-carbon-capture

Mimicking the natural processes of plants, each artificial leaf generates electricity during photosynthesis, with water and nutrients supplied through transpiration and capillary action.

What CEOs talked about in Q3 2024

https://iotbusinessnews.com/2024/10/05/64540-what-ceos-talked-about-in-q3-2024/

CEO discussions are increasingly focused on practical AI applications, renewable energy sources, unpredictable IT outages, and election-related topics, while mentions of generative AI, NVIDIA, and the cloud have decreased.

Organizational Misfit.

https://rishad.substack.com/p/organizational-misfit

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I help companies by developing an inspiring and clear future perspective, which creates better business models, higher productivity, more profit and a higher valuation. Best-selling author, speaker, writer.

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