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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 30 January 2025

Todays prompts are robot swarms, material science, leadership, the decentralised workforce, Perplexity, trust, electric fungi, desalination, new glowing molecules, AI, and  phytomining.

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Just How Many Robots Can One Person Control at Once?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/darpa-robot

Humans can single-handedly and effectively manage a heterogenous swarm of more than 100 autonomous ground and aerial vehicles.

US engineers craft 3D shapes from single sheets to control light and sound path

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/us-engineers-craft-3d-shapes-from-single-sheets-to-control-light-and-sound-path

These structures can control sound and light, which opens up a world of possibilities in fields like acoustics, optics, and robotics.

From Chaos To Clarity: Leadership In The Age Of Unpredictability

https://www.forbes.com/sites/vibhasratanjee/2025/01/26/from-chaos-to-clarity-leadership-in-the-age-of-unpredictability/

Chaos theory, global interconnectedness, patterns, predictably irrational and chaordic.

The Decentralised Workforce

https://workforcefuturist.substack.com/p/the-decentralised-workforce

The rise of freelancers, creators, and one-person empires – how digital platforms are reshaping work and wealth creation.

Singtel partners with Perplexity to bring AI to every broadband and mobile subscriber

https://www.trendwatching.com/innovations/singtel-partners-with-perplexity-to-bring-ai-to-every-broadband-and-mobile-subscriber

The year-long subscription, typically priced at SGD 270, is being offered to all of Singtel’s broadband, mobile and TV subscribers.

Grievance soars, anger is trending and discrimination reaches new heights

https://www.trendwatching.com/trends-and-insights/grievance-soars-anger-is-trending-and-discrimination-reaches-new-heights

Businesses can no longer afford to sit on the sidelines. Tangible action — not authority — is the true currency of trust.

Electric fungi: The biobattery that needs to be fed

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/01/250109125838.htm

A battery that needs feeding instead of charging? This is exactly what researchers have achieved with their 3D-printed, biodegradable fungal battery.

New tech helps turn seawater into drinking water

https://www.futurity.org/seawater-to-drinking-water-3265912/

Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater.

New glowing molecule, invented by AI, would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature, scientists say

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/new-glowing-molecule-invented-by-ai-would-have-taken-500-million-years-to-evolve-in-nature-scientists-say

The team trained ESM3 on data from 2.78 billion proteins found in nature.

The Most Important Time in History Is Now

https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/the-most-important-time-in-history-agi-asi

The Future Is About to Hit Us. A must read.

US scientists engineer plant to harvest precious minerals, improve soil, create biofuel

https://interestingengineering.com/science/us-scientists-engineer-plant-to-harvest-precious-minerals-improve-soil-create-biofuel

Molecular biologistst are pioneering the field of phytomining, turning plants into miners to fuel the green economy.

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WHY REINVENT THE WHEEL AND WHY NOT LEARN FROM THE BEST BUSINESS THINKERS? AND WHY NOT USE THAT AS A PLATFORM TO MAKE BETTER BUSINESS DECISIONS? ALONE OR AS A TEAM.

Sense making; morality, humanity, leadership and slow flow. A book about the 14 books about the impact and implications of technology on business and humanity.

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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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