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Scenario prompt 5 August 2025
The prompt for today growing bio-plastic. The operative word is growing. They have programmed bacteria to grown into plastic with the strength of steel. This is only the beginning. Is biotech going to impact your business. When?
The other prompts are a free AI event on 7 August, synthetic E.coli, wireless charging using ultrasound, and cleaning glass, and you re the upgrade.
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Event on / 7 August, 16:00 CET
Myself and Marco van Hunre are organising an ever, titled “The future of AI inflated” on August 7, 2025, 16:00 CET. Hosted on LinkedIn – RSVP via the listing on LinkedIn. Love to see you there.
Synthetic E. coli with compressed DNA outsmarts viruses in radical genetic leap
https://interestingengineering.com/science/recoded-ecoli-syn57-genetic-code
Syn57 is the most radically recoded organism to date, engineered to unlock new materials, resist viruses, and redefine life.
Ultrasound-based wireless charging technology for implantable medical devices
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-08-ultrasound-based-wireless-technology-implantable.html
A research team has developed an “ultrasound-based wireless charging technology” capable of rapidly and efficiently charging the batteries of implantable medical devices.
This Incredible New Bioplastic Could Be The Supermaterial of Tomorrow
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-incredible-new-bioplastic-could-be-the-supermaterial-of-tomorrow
By simply growing the cellulose fibers in a spinning chamber, the team produced flexible, transparent sheets with tensile strength up to 436 megapascals (about the same as low-carbon steel). Read https://www.ronimmink.com/synthetic-biology/
Chinese scientists develop self-cleaning glass that uses electric fields to remove dust
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-self-cleaning-glass-electric-fields
The thin, transparent glass embedded with electric-field-driven electrodes can clean itself in seconds, erasing up to 98% of particles without using water, chemicals, or much energy.
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.
