I help organisations become future-fit. #Mindcandy scenario prompts are part of that. They are designed to stretch your imagination, sharpen situational awareness, and spark opportunity thinking. Find out more here.
Scenario Prompts – 21 October 2025
The scenario prompt for today is whether you are as a company in growth, transition, recovery, or reset. Whatever you do. Forget innovation, disruption, VUCA, BANI and focus on future fitness. Focus on your AQ.
The other prompts to expand your lens today are:
- You are the upgrade, a summary of 25 books about AI, the conclusion is augmented natural intelligence as the way forward
- A wireless retinal prosthesis
- The Gartner top 10 strategic technology trends for 2026
- Surrogate AI
- The rise of the co-CEO
- Self-organising light
- DNA drug delivery
- Hydrogel to secure IDs
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.
Eye prosthesis is the first to restore sight lost to macular degeneration
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/10/eye-prosthesis.html
In a Stanford Medicine-led clinical trial of a wireless retinal prosthesis, people with advanced macular degeneration regained enough vision to read books and subway signs.
Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2026
https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/top-technology-trends-2026
In 2026, disruption is accelerating and AI is no longer optional. Infrastructure, orchestration, and governance.
Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?
https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/10/should-an-ai-copy-of-you-help-decide-if-you-live-or-die/
Doctors share top concerns of AI surrogates aiding life-or-death decisions.
The rise of the co-CEO: a founder’s guide to making it work
https://www.raconteur.net/leadership/the-rise-of-the-co-ceo-a-founders-guide-to-making-it-work
From Spotify to Oracle, co-CEOs are on the rise. Here’s why two leaders at the helm may be the smartest way to steer modern organisations
Self-Organizing Light Could Transform Computing and Communications
https://scitechdaily.com/self-organizing-light-could-transform-computing-and-communications/
USC engineers have demonstrated a new kind of optical device that lets light organize its own route using the principles of thermodynamics.
US scientists create tiny ‘DNA flower’ robots that could deliver drugs inside body
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/tiny-dna-flower-robots-for-drug-delivery
DNA arranged in flower-shaped crystals folds and unfolds with acidity changes, enabling motions, reactions, and molecule delivery.
The 4 Seasons Organizations Go Through—and How to Lead in Each
https://hbr.org/2025/10/the-4-seasons-organizations-go-through-and-how-to-lead-in-each
Growth, transition, recovery, and reset.
Impossible to fake? New hydrogel could give every object a unique, unclonable identity
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/hydrogel-makes-materials-unclonable
This soft, smart gel turns random polymer networks into secure IDs that hackers and forgers can’t replicate.
