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.
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Scenario prompts 3 March 2025
Todays prompts are Tardigrades, high speed internet, fabric computers, leadership, symbient intelligence, mindLLM, virtual flavour tech, xenotransplantation, and DAOs.
How fast is your leadership?
Tardigrade protein may help humans survive nuclear radiation, aid cancer patients
https://interestingengineering.com/health/tardigrade-protein-protect-humans-radiation
When researchers injected mRNA encoding this protein into mice, it produced enough to protect DNA from radiation damage.
Google’s Taara Hopes to Usher in a New Era of Internet Powered by Light
https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-google-taara-chip-internet-by-light/
The Alphabet “moonshot” project is launching a new chip to deliver high-speed internet with light instead of radio waves.
Move Over Smart Rings. MIT’s New Fabric Computer Is Stitched Into Your Clothes.
MIT engineers created a fabric computer that can be stitched into regular clothes. The device features sensors, processors, memory, batteries, and both optical and Bluetooth communications.
Leadership At Warp Speed: How To Drive Success In The Era Of Agentic AI
The world has never changed this fast and will never move this slow again
Symbient Intelligence
https://boxofamazing.substack.com/p/symbient-intelligence
Symbient Intelligence describes a future in which human thinking seamlessly blends with artificial helpers. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/is-your-organisational-design-ready-for-ai/
Direct translation of brain imaging to text with MindLLM
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02-brain-imaging-text-mindllm.html
Decoding brain activity into natural language has significant implications for neuroscience and brain-computer interface applications.
Tasting cake, fish soup online now possible with new virtual flavor tech
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/virtual-flavor-tech-successfully-tested
The system uses chemical sensors and wireless dispensers to simulate taste sensations, offering a new layer of immersion in digital environments.
Pig organs in people: The future of cross-species transplants
Can genetically modified animals help ease the shortage of organs? After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point — yet risks and ethical issues remain.
The Future Of Governance: How DAOs Are Redefining Organizational Structures
DAOs symbolize a departure from old models into collective governance- whereby everything revolves around transparency and community-driven initiatives.
