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 31 January 2025
Todays prompts are leadership, bacteria and algae as food, EV, biomimetic skin, micro retirement, 3D printing brains, STEM cells, and my take on “Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit”.
Is your leadership style ready for AI?
What Leadership Looks Like When Everyone Has AI
https://time.com/charter/7210141/davos-ai-leadership/
AI Will Be in Your Org Chart—Sooner Than You Think
Seeking New Foods, Scientists Look To Bacteria, Algae, and More
https://undark.org/2025/01/29/new-food-bacteria-algae/
At universities and startups around the globe, researchers are searching for microbes that could be used as food.
The sci-fi motor design that could help save the EV industry
In-wheel motors aim to outperform current individual-wheel drive (IWD) systems, which are widely used in today’s EVs, while also surpassing competing in-wheel motor technologies that are still in the prototype stage.
Skin phantoms help researchers improve wearable devices without people wearing them
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-skin-phantoms-wearable-devices-people.html
A tool called a biomimetic skin phantom—a model that mimics the electrical behavior of human skin, making testing wearable sensors easier, cheaper and more reliable.
‘Micro-Retirement’: The New Career Trend Rising Among Gen Z
Gen Z workers are paving the way for the next generation of workers by continuing to prioritize a healthy work-life balance.
3D-printed brain-like environment promotes neuron growth
https://www.techexplorist.com/3d-printed-brain-environment-promotes-neuron-growth/96610/
Researchers have created a 3D-printed brain-like environment for neurons to grow, similar to how they do in the brain.
Stem cells used to partially repair damaged hearts
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/01/stem-cells-used-to-partially-repair-damaged-hearts/
A method of repairing the heart using new muscle generated from stem cells.
AI, it could be awesome
https://www.ronimmink.com/ai-it-could-be-awesome/
“Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit” is yet another book on AI, and to be honest, it does not add much to the pantheon of books. It identifies the issues, but is particularly weak on offering solutions to some of the existential issues that we are facing
