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How to use the prompts
Use these prompts to explore their relevance, assess opportunities and threats, and analyse timelines and impacts on your organisation. Consider multiple possible futures across 1, 3, 5, and 10 years time horizons.
Scenario prompts 29 April 2025
Todays prompts human creativity, micro-fabrication, sustainability, smart bandages, living neural chips, subterranean dung drones, and tiny houses.
Growing neural computers? Consider impact. Think exponential.
In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource
As AI outputs flood the Internet, diverse human perspectives are our most valuable resource. You are the upgrade https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Researchers Tattooed Tardigrades. They Promise It Will Be Useful
https://gizmodo.com/researchers-tattooed-tardigrades-they-promise-it-will-be-useful-2000593853
Microfabrication is—simply put—the construction of tiny things, including microscopic and nanoscopic objects and patterns. Microfabrication has major potential in medicine and biomedical engineering, in addition to fields like electronics and photonics—but first, researchers need to develop techniques that are biologically compatible.
Getting Strategic About Sustainability
https://hbr.org/2025/01/getting-strategic-about-sustainability
Use four lenses: the business value lens (What affects our bottom line?), the stakeholder influence lens (What are people trying to tell us?), the science and technology lens (What does the data tell us about our impact and future?), and the purpose lens (What do we stand for?).
Smart bandage clears new hurdle: monitors chronic wounds in human patients
The researchers show that the stamp-sized patch can scoop up fresh fluid from chronic ulcers, scan it for tell-tale molecules of inflammation and wirelessly beam the results to a smartphone, often one to three days before visible symptoms appear.
How Living Neural Chips Could Power AI
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/how-living-neural-chips-could-power-ai
A computing system that integrates lab-grown neurons with traditional processors—is already powering AI tasks like computer vision and large language model (LLM) acceleration.
Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don’t Have to
https://www.wired.com/story/poop-drones-are-keeping-sewers-running-so-humans-dont-have-to/
Poorly maintained sewers can have disastrous consequences, but regular inspections can be time-consuming, expensive, and dangerous. The solution: subterranean dung drones.
Can these tiny house villages bring new life to small towns?
https://www.fastcompany.com/91321980/can-these-tiny-house-villages-bring-new-life-to-small-towns
These three neighborhoods of tiny houses show what’s possible to build quickly when towns don’t have overly restrictive zoning.
