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Scenario prompt 4 August 2025
The prompt for today is the adjacent possible. Innovation is a slow, steady march. AI and TRIZ. You should immediately apply a TRIZ AI to your products and consider the next (incremental) steps.
The other scenario prompts are an event about AI on 7 August, digital twinning, lethal autonomous weapons, digitising pollen, AI glasses, organoids, meta-optical technology, and you are the upgrade
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The “Adjacent Possible”
https://kelmarmon.medium.com/the-adjacent-possible-f1d957ebaa22
Most fruitful breakthroughs often come not from giant leaps, but from small steps just beyond what we already know.
Digital Twins and AI: Powering the future of creativity at Nestlé
https://venturebeat.com/ai/digital-twins-and-ai-powering-the-future-of-creativity-at-nestle/
Using digital twins to transform marketing
Governing Lethal Autonomous Weapons: The Future of Warfare and Military AI
It is evident that key terms like “human control,” “intervention,” and “lethality” remain vague, creating substantial uncertainty around the concept of LAWS
Smithsonian Digitizes Pollen From 18,000 Plant Species
A team of researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is digitizing images of pollen from more than18,000 plant species from the tropics.
AI glasses will become your primary computing devices according to Mark Zuckerberg as he ushers in the era of personal superintelligence
Zuckerberg believes that AI glasses will become our dominant personal computing device
Mini Human Organs Just Got Much Closer to Matching the Real Thing
https://singularityhub.com/2025/07/31/mini-human-organs-just-got-much-closer-to-the-real-thing/
Self sustaining organoids. What will be next? Biobots? Organoid LEGO?
We are actually very close to this science fiction”: meta-optical tech may soon enable ‘projection-glasses,’ novel cameras, and more
https://thedebrief.org/we-are-actually-very-close-to-this-science-fiction-meta-optical-tech-may-soon-enable-projection-glasses-novel-cameras-and-more/
TMOS’s meta-optical systems consist of millions of nanostructures, as varied as their larger cousins, and which similarly allow for generating, manipulating, and detecting light in a range of ways
You are the upgrade
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
