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Scenario Prompts – 12 November 2025
The scenario prompts for today are genetic upgrading and cloning. Combine that with embodied AI and you are going to get a weird augmentation mix. Genetic engineering and programmable biology will fundamentally change the products of the future. See this as a nice though experiment. What could your company do with this?
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
- Superconducting qubits
- Turning stomach cells into insulin producers
- Dental restoration gel
- AI-designed antibodies
- Brain captioning BTCs
- Tackling food spoilage
- An artificial womb
- Mastering change
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.
Superconducting qubit that lasts for over 1 millisecond is primed for industrial scaling
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-superconducting-qubit-millisecond-primed-industrial.html
The researchers built a fully functioning quantum chip based on this qubit to validate its performance, clearing one of the key obstacles to efficient error correction and scalability for industrial systems.
Scientists Just Turned Stomach Cells Into Insulin Producers to Treat Diabetes
Scientists have discovered that human stomach cells can be genetically reprogrammed to act like pancreatic beta cells and produce insulin.
Scientists create fluoride-free gel that restores lost enamel within two weeks
https://interestingengineering.com/health/tooth-enamel-regenerating-gel
A new protein-based gel mimicking natural enamel growth could repair damaged teeth and redefine dental restoration.
AI-designed antibodies created from scratch
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-ai-antibodies.html
Researchers trained an AI system to build antibodies that recognize user-specified molecular sites.
Brain-computer interface decodes Mandarin from neural signals in real time
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-brain-interface-decodes-mandarin-neural.html
A leading approach focuses on the ventral sensorimotor cortex, which encodes articulatory kinematic trajectories. Neural signals from this region can be transformed into discrete linguistic units or articulatory gesture parameters and subsequently synthesized into words, sentences, or sounds
Scientists Unveil a ‘Living Vaccine’ That Kills Bad Bacteria in Food to Make It Last Longer
The platform can revolutionize current food contamination practices, preventing foodborne illness and waste through the active decontamination of food products.
This machine could keep a baby alive outside the womb. How will the world decide to use it?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/05/baby-alive-outside-womb
Now think space travel…..
Mastering Change Is A Defining Skill In The Intelligence Age
The Intelligence Age is powering the emergence of a sweeping Cognitive Industrial Revolution, unleashing a Cambrian explosion of change. The rapid deployment of thinking machines will result in a profound shift in the way we live, work, and play, with zero historical precedent and with future implications that are impossible to predict right now.
New plant system triggers crops to grow themselves with genetic upgrades
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/self-growing-crops-speed-up-gene-editing
By using plants’ own regeneration pathways, scientists have created a fast, flexible system for producing gene-edited crops.
Cloning Your Pets Is Going Mainstream. Is That a Good Idea?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a69267201/dog-cloning-tom-brady/
Former NFL quarterback Tom Brady recently announced that he cloned his pet dog. The reveal sparked a discussion around the economics and ethics of the practice.
