Greetings from Milan. I am on my way to the Silicon Mountain Technology Summit in Yerevan, where I will chair the panels on impact AI, investment AI, and industry AI. If you are at the summit, come say hello. I am free on Saturday as well.
Scenario prompts 14 November 2024
Use the prompts to question relevance, opportunity vs. threat, if vs. when, timelines, impact, and responses. Consider multiple futures.
Today’s prompts are algorithmic management, 100 climate leaders, AI and scientific literature, aggregated measurement, the creator economy, water capture, head transplants and photonic time crystals.
Is Algorithmic Management Too Controlling?
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/is-algorithmic-management-too-controlling/
Read https://www.ronimmink.com/how-to-optimise-your-decision-making-as-a-leader-using-machines/
https://time.com/collection/time100-climate-2024/
The 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders in Business for 2024
Can AI review the scientific literature — and figure out what it all means?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03676-9
Some of the newer AI-powered science search engines can already help people to produce narrative literature reviews — a written tour of studies — by finding, sorting and summarizing publications. But they can’t yet produce a high-quality review by themselves.
Mapping the ionosphere with the power of Android
https://research.google/blog/mapping-the-ionosphere-with-the-power-of-android/
We can now understand the ionosphere better thanks to aggregated measurements from millions of Android phones.
Trust, community, trending products… Shoppers are putting their dollars behind creators
The creator economy is reaching new heights, with nearly two-thirds (65%) of consumers now purchasing products and services from creator-founded companies
New device pulls water out of desert air
https://www.futurity.org/water-capture-device-3256912/
Engineers have invented a high-yield atmospheric water capture device for arid regions.
No Doctor Has Ever Performed a Human Head Transplant. This Neurosurgeon Says He’s Ready to Do It.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a62831709/human-head-transplants/
The Western medical establishment ousted him. China embraced him. Will the man on a mission to perform the first human head transplant ever pull it off?
Scientists Design First Practical Light-Amplifying Crystal That Could Revolutionize Medical Sensors
Researchers have designed a new type of material called a photonic time crystal that can dramatically amplify light signals
