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Scenario prompts 1 November
Use the prompts to question things such as relevance, opportunity vs threat, if vs when, timelines, impact and responses. Consider multiple futures.
Today’s prompts are octo-bots, nuclear fusion, organoids, solid-state batteries, self service kiosks, products that grow with you, intrapreneurship, 2034, lab-made muscle, and neuro-linked fighter pilots.
Improve your innovation fitness. Develop your change muscles.
Simplified octopus-inspired swimming robot with soft asymmetric arms can replicate swimming patterns
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-10-octopus-robot-soft-asymmetric-arms.html
Octo-bots?
Nuclear Fusion Has Stumped Scientists for Decades. Here’s How We’ll Finally Unlock Its Limitless Energy.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a62681918/how-does-nuclear-fusion-work/
Enter the tokamak, a fusion machine of unimaginable sophistication. Designed by scientists in the Soviet Union in the late 1950s, the name “tokamak” is a Russian acronym for “toroidal chamber with magnetic coils.”
“Human mini-brains” reveal autism biology and potential treatments
Using stem cells generated from patients with a rare and severe form of autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability, scientists have grown personalized “mini-brains” (or organoids) to study the disorder in new detail.
The Battery Revolution Is Finally Here
https://insideevs.com/features/738508/high-silicon-anode-solid-state/
Solid state batteries.
Partnering with retailer Zenni, Eyebot’s self-serve kiosks offer 90-second vision tests
The entire process is self-serve and touch-free, and offered free of charge.
Design Products That Won’t Become Obsolete
https://hbr.org/2024/11/design-products-that-wont-become-obsolete
In a market that increasingly emphasizes flexibility, durability, and environmentalism, companies that make the shift from static offerings to products that grow will position themselves for success.
Rethinking Corporate Innovation Strategies From The Ground Up
The real key to corporate innovation lies in embracing uncertainty and focusing on a portfolio approach rather than following rigid methodologies or betting on a single project. Also see https://www.ronimmink.com/product/building-the-in-company-change-muscle-intrapreneurship-innovation-transformation-strategy/
2034 – A Day in the Working Life
https://wrk3.beehiiv.com/p/2034-a-day-in-the-working-life
With Equity Tokens, Lifelong Learning Wallets, and intelligent seamless Work-Matching Platforms
Lab-made muscle: New laser tech grows real human tissues to replace lab rats
https://interestingengineering.com/science/lab-made-muscle-with-new-laser-tech
Laser technology to create intricate, microscopic structures that mimic the natural architecture of human tissues.
The Military Is Developing a Helmet That Will Allow Fighter Pilots to Maneuver Their Jets—and Fire Weapons—By Just Thinking About It.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a62719626/darpa-n3-ai-helmet/
A non-invasive, neurological link would in theory let pilots carry out sophisticated tasks instantly.
