I help organisations become future-fit. #Mindcandy scenario prompts are part of that. They are designed to stretch your imagination, sharpen situational awareness, and spark opportunity thinking. Find out more here.
Scenario Prompts – 14 October 2025
The scenario prompt for today is leaning into disruption. That is theme of my talk at the Skillnet conference tomorrow. Innovation is an attitude. It is about situational awareness (preferably everyone in the organisation), shared principles, collective responsibility, and an opportunity mindset. Irish SMEs are ideally suited for this. Will be sharing some trends, simple tools and tips to help lean in. You have no choice.
The other prompts to expand your lens today are:
- You are the upgrade, a summary of 25 books about AI, the conclusion is augmented natural intelligence as the way forward
- Repurposing old smartphones as tiny data centres
- Robotics
- Pig-to-person gene-edited liver transplants
- Solar from space
- Augmented soldiers
- Tactile sensing
- New lab-grown human embryo model producing blood
- AI enabled textile
- Nanoparticle drug triggered the brain to rapidly flush out the brain
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.
Repurposing old smartphones as tiny data centres
https://springwise.com/responsible-connectivity/repurposing-old-smartphones-as-tiny-data-centres/
By bundling CPUs from used phones, researchers were able to create a sustainable source of processing power
America’s Manufacturing Resurgence Will Be Powered by These Robots
China has more industrial robots than the rest of the world combined, but newer, more flexible robots are keeping smaller U.S. manufacturers in the fight
World’s first pig-to-person gene-edited liver transplant marks medical milestone
https://interestingengineering.com/health/pig-to-person-liver-transplant-marks-milestone
Experts have hailed the xenotransplant study as a “landmark in hepatology.”
Radical Plan to Beam ‘Sunlight on Demand’ at Night Sparks Concerns
https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-plan-to-beam-sunlight-on-demand-at-night-sparks-concerns
“Sunlight on demand” with mirrors that beam sunlight down to Earth so solar farms
Superpowers for Superheroes
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1977725937807466713.html
EagleEye: the family of warfighter augments that place mission command & AI directly into the operator’s helmet.
New lab-grown human embryo model produces blood cells
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-lab-grown-human-embryo-model-produces-blood-cells
University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development – including the production of blood stem cells.
The Next Decade of Tactile Sensing: Evolution and Trajectory of Tactile Sensing
How manufacturing breakthroughs, rising demand, new applications, and strategic partnerships are set to revolutionize the future of tactile sensors.
Chinese researchers develop textile that helps AI recognize voices
Researchers designed a triboelectric acoustic textile, dubbed A-Textile. Unlike conventional rigid and bulky acoustic devices, the fabric is soft, flexible and washable. It can harness the natural electrostatic charges generated on clothing when a person speaks.
A Nanoparticle Drug Triggered the Brain to Rapidly Flush Out Toxic Alzheimer’s Proteins in Mice
What’s remarkable is that our nanoparticles act as a drug and seem to activate a feedback mechanism that brings this clearance pathway back to normal levels. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/we-are-now-entering-the-steep-part-of-the-exponential/
