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 22 January 2025
Todays prompts are milk, Showcase Ireland, digital twinning, 4D bio-ink, Japanification, organic solar, becoming indistractable, bringing brains back to life and linking brains to machines.
How indistractable are you?
Bona Fide vs Band Aid Technology Solutions: How can you tell the difference?
https://www.rethinkx.com/blog/bona-fide-vs-band-aid
A story about milk.
Showcase Awards Winners 2025
https://showcaseireland.com/newfront/news/showcase-awards-winners-2025
3 of the 5 winners were participants of our craft accelerator. Open for applications for 2025. Apply here https://www.dcci.ie/the-accelerator-programme/
Will digital twins ever become standard in supply chains?
https://www.raconteur.net/supply-chain/digital-twins-supply-chains
Detailed digital simulations could help to model supply chains and offset risks, easing supply chain challenges
Researchers develop 4D bioink to control blood vessels in 3D bioprinting
A novel bioink that can precisely control the growth and organization of tiny blood vessels in printed tissue.
The Japanification of Work: Lessons from an Ageing Nation
https://workforcefuturist.substack.com/p/the-japanification-of-work
Cuddly Seals and Exoskeletons: How Japan Tackles an Ageing Workforce
Organic solar cells could be best for space missions
https://www.futurity.org/organic-solar-cells-space-3264812/
Radiation testing suggests that solar cells made from carbon-based, or organic, materials could outperform conventional silicon and gallium arsenide for generating electricity in space.
How to Become Indistractable in 2025
https://every.to/superorganizers/how-to-become-indistractable-in-2025
Nir Eyal wants you to rethink distraction
Scientists Have Proven It’s Possible to Bring a Dead Brain ‘Back to Life’—But There’s a Catch
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a63459169/brain-reanimation/
The implications of this research could redefine the boundary between life and death.
A Paralyzed Man Just Piloted a Virtual Drone With His Mind Alone
Linking brains to machines has gone from science fiction to reality in the past two decades.
