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Scenario prompts 9 December 2024
Today’s prompts are yoga pills, cloaking, nanotech, cyborg cockroaches, tattoo interfaces, dried microbes, fragment forward, the first nuclear-powered diamond battery, androids emotions, and intrapreneurship.
Use the prompts to question relevance, opportunity vs threat, if vs when, timelines, impact and responses. Consider multiple futures and different time horizons.
How intrapreneurial are you?
A ‘yoga pill’ to end anxiety? Neuroscientists discover a brain circuit that instantly deflates stress
The discovery opens up the potential for the creation of new drugs that would mimic the relaxed state common during breath work, meditation or yoga
China creates chameleon-like camouflage tech with ‘invisibility’ power for military use
https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-chameleon-camouflage-military-use
Researchers has developed an advanced color-switchable material called Self-Adaptive Photochromism (SAP). This new material can change its color in response to its surroundings, similar to a chameleon.
Breakthrough in Nanotechnology Unlocks Atomic Precision for Medicine and Energy
Physicists are getting closer to controlling single-molecule chemical reactions – could this shape the future of pharmaceutical research?
Automated Cyborg Cockroach Factory Could Churn Out a Bug a Minute for Search and Rescue
The merger of living creatures with machines is a staple of science fiction, but it’s also a serious line of research for academics. Several groups have implanted electronics into moths, beetles, and cockroaches that allow simple control of the insects.
These Temporary Tattoos Can Read Your Brainwaves
https://gizmodo.com/these-temporary-tattoos-can-read-your-brainwaves-2000533460
The specialized ink could eventually replace clunky EEG wires and “potentially revolutionize” brain-computer interface devices.
Would you eat dried microbes? This company hopes so.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1107900/microbes-food/
Bacteria grown in massive bioreactors could soon be on the dinner menu.
Fragment Forward’: 5 Trends for 2025 and Beyond
https://www.lbbonline.com/news/fragment-forward-5-trends-for-2025-and-beyond
Good-enough, togetherness, generation blur, curiosity, and AI.
World’s first nuclear-powered diamond battery with 5,700-year lifespan unveiled by UK
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/worlds-first-carbon-14-diamond-battery
Carbon-14’s short-range radiation, safely encased within a diamond, makes this battery both safe and highly durable.
This Android Can Experience Feelings Humanity Has Never Felt, Says its Creator
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a63117645/ai-could-have-emotions/
Because of their unique bodies and physical interactions, robots could potentially be feeling “emotions” entirely different from ours—changing the way we bond to them, says this expert.
Harnessing intrapreneurship: the key to innovation in sports
https://www.meer.com/en/81329-harnessing-intrapreneurship-the-key-to-innovation-in-sports
Why fostering an entrepreneurial mindset drives growth and engagement in the sports industry. See https://www.ronimmink.com/product/building-the-in-company-change-muscle-intrapreneurship-innovation-transformation-strategy/
