Mind candy are prompts to help you to keep up to date, develop strategic responses to trends and train your change muscle, making you more resilient and agile for the future. If you need help with developing these prompts, you can book a free appointment here. If you want me to speak at your event, contact me at ron@ronimmink.com
How to use the prompts
Become a trend watcher yourself. Use these prompts to explore their relevance, assess opportunities and threats, and analyse timelines and impacts on your organisation. Consider multiple possible futures across varying time horizons—1, 3, 5, and 10 years.
Scenario prompts 11 March 2025
Todays prompts are intention, optoelectronics, cartilage, decentralisation and blockchain, the Ambient Internet of Things (AIoT), adaptive retail (and gaming), reversible adhesive, and nuclear batteries.
How are you identifying, communicating, coordinating, and executing intent?
Why Intention Will Be Central To The AI Economy
https://digitaltonto.com/2025/why-intention-will-be-central-to-the-ai-economy/
While machines can do much of our work for us, they can’t decide what work we want done. That’s why high-level jobs, both now and in the future, will center on identifying, communicating, coordinating, and executing intent.
A new on-chip microcomb to synchronize signals in optoelectronics
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-03-chip-microcomb-synchronize-optoelectronics.html
Optoelectronic systems could transmit data faster than conventional electronics, thus opening new possibilities for the development of high-speed communication technology.
Nose to knee: Surprising cartilage breakthrough could enhance joint treatment
https://interestingengineering.com/health/nasal-cartilage-repair-knees
Scientists develop innovative cartilage implants using cells from the nasal septum.
Defining decentralization: It comes down to control
https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/defining-decentralization-control/
Decentralization is a key benefit of blockchain technology, and has the potential to address many current social challenges online
A breakthrough in IoT supported by Qualcomm, Intel and Pepsi lets battery-free devices draw power directly from the environment
Companies are working on breakthroughs in the Ambient Internet of Things (IoT), a class of IoT devices powered by harvesting energy from ambient sources, will allow battery-less things to be connected.
Walmart’s Latest ‘Adaptive Retail’ Adventure: Immersive Gaming + Commerce
Adaptive Retail is any commerce experience that brings consumers what they want, wherever and whenever they want it. This next, more expansive version of “omnichannel” (as Walmart sees it) encompasses everything from hyper-personalized product recommendations, virtual shopping assistants and automated delivery to virtual try-on and in-platform buying
Scientists develop reversible adhesive that could transform composites
Instead of relying on irreversible chemical bonds, the team pioneered the use of pseudo-bonds — physical entanglements between long polymer chains.
Scientists Reveal Battery That Can Be Powered by Nuclear Waste
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reveal-battery-that-can-be-powered-by-nuclear-waste
Scintillator crystals converted the radiation into light, and then solar cells turned this light into electricity.
