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.
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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 25 March 2025
Todays prompts are liquid robots, 11 future trends, intentional curiosity, culture, strategy, AI and the purchase cycle, holograms, reprogramming stem cells and artificial nerves.
Liquid robots!
Cell-inspired liquid robot beats hard-bodied rivals in drug delivery, tumor treatment
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/cell-inspired-liquid-robots-south-korea
The design boosts liquid-particle composites by using extra superhydrophobic particles, ensuring stability and adaptive shape-shifting.
These are the 11 trends of the future
Work, connectivity, demographics, globalisation, mobility, urbanisation, eco-intelligence, Identity dynamics, knowledge culture, health, and security.
Intentional Curiosity: Get your Brain to Focus on What Matters
https://nesslabs.com/intentional-curiosity
Your attentional field is the combination of everything inside you—thoughts, emotions, physical sensations—and everything outside you, including what you see and hear.
The Culture Pendulum: Striking Balance for Your Organization in 2025
https://prophet.com/2025/02/organizational-culture-striking-balance-2025/
Oscillating between extremes is a familiar pattern for organizations and the concept of the cultural pendulum illustrates how workplace values shift over time.
Good Research Takes are Not Sufficient for Good Strategic Takes
https://www.neelnanda.io/blog/50-strategic-takes
Domain knowledge and time spent thinking.
Retailers and the Future of Search: Embracing Tomorrow’s AI Reality
AI and the Purchase Cycle.
Korean Tech Transforms Ordinary Videos Into Floating 3D Holograms In Real Time
Imagine watching your favorite YouTube video not on a flat screen, but as a three-dimensional hologram floating before your eyes.
Paralysed man stands again after receiving ‘reprogrammed’ stem cells
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00863-0
Reprogrammed cells are created by reverting adult cells to an embryonic-like state, from which they can be coaxed to develop into other cell types.
Artificial nerve with organic transistor design shows promise for brain-machine interfaces
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-03-artificial-nerve-transistor-brain-machine.html
Artificial nerves could be useful for a wide range of applications, ranging from systems for repairing damaged nerves to brain-computer interfaces, highly precise sensors and other advanced electronics.
