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Scenario prompts 5 December 2024
Today’s prompts are AI doing your shopping, nuclear, microbiome, tiny robots, innovation, biochemical wearables, call-out consumerism, IoT startups, and transforming blood into regenerative, 3D-printed implants.
Use the prompts to question relevance, opportunity vs threat, if vs when, timelines, impact and responses. Consider multiple futures.
How exposed is your business model to call-out consumerism?
The race is on to make AI agents do your online shopping for you
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/02/the-race-is-on-to-make-ai-agents-do-your-online-shopping-for-you/
The end of branding?
A New Reckoning for Nuclear Energy
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/12/america-nuclear-power-revival/680842/
The U.S. is softening toward the idea of building a new fleet of nuclear reactors.
Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/fish-have-a-brain-microbiome-could-humans-have-one-too-20241202/
The answer is yes. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/the-immune-mind/
China’s tiny 15 mm robot sets new speed record, outpacing real cockroaches
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-15-mm-robot-sets-new-speed-record
The robot effectively switches between forward and backward movement by aligning the vibratory motions of its magnet, cantilever, and linkages using vibration mode transition control.
How to Decide Which Innovation Projects to Greenlight
https://hbr.org/2024/12/how-to-decide-which-innovation-projects-to-greenlight
When selecting new innovation projects, some committees prize consensus. Venture capitalists looking for the next big thing might do the opposite, picking projects on which they disagree.
Next generation of wearable sensors will be able to provide biochemical analyses, researchers say
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-12-generation-wearable-sensors-biochemical-analyses.html
In the future, such sensors will gather valuable insights into their wearer’s state of health by analyzing body fluids such as sweat, breath, saliva, tears and urine.
Scan, call out, reform: Yuka turns consumers into change agents
Product scanning app Yuka has launched a new “Call-out” feature that enables users to directly challenge brands on their use of potentially harmful additives in food and cosmetics.
10 IoT start-ups to keep on your radar
Smart heating, workflow, real estate, edge, footwear, medical devices, satellites, wildfire, radar and low power bluetooth.
Scientists transform blood into regenerative, 3D-printed implants
Scientists used animals’ own blood to create materials that successfully repaired bones, advancing personalised regenerative therapies.
