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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 7 January 2025
Todays prompts are mentats, VR, AR, quantum sensing, proton batteries, seams as sensors, fragmentation, 25 tech prediction, the brain biome, synthetic embryos, Anthrobots and nano diamonds.
Mentats………..?
Bicycles for the Mind and Software-Augmented Mentats
https://bzolang.blog/p/bicycles-for-the-mind-and-software
A look through the history of augmenting the human mind and some thoughts on the future
The Future of AI Is Coming for Our Eyes: VR and AR’s Killer App, With Killer Unknowns
Mixed reality is already here, and the next step for headsets and glasses is a wave of AI that experiences it alongside us
DARPA eyeing new quantum sensing program
Defense officials see quantum sensors as promising capabilities for alternative positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR).
Scientists Built a Proton Battery That Could Dethrone Lithium-Ion
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a63152930/proton-batteries/
Proton batteries use protons split from water which then bond with a carbon electrode
Hiding in plain sight: seams as sensors
https://specialtyfabricsreview.com/2025/01/01/hiding-in-plain-sight-seams-as-sensors/
Smart-textile researchers studied different sleeve seams to incorporate sensors into smart shirts that one day could be used for remote monitoring of physical therapy exercises.
Paradox
https://rishad.substack.com/p/paradox
As we move to distributed work, as technology advances, and as other trends transform society, a set of opposing but connected forces have emerged: Fragmentation and Integration
25 Tech Predictions for 2025
https://www.thepourquoipas.com/post/25-tech-predictions-for-2025
Crypto app store, infinite gaming, sleep tech, embryo tech, smart glasses, writing disappearing, AI, synthetic content, nuclear, hydrogen, data, open source, and hope.
Could Humans Have a Brain Microbiome?
https://www.wired.com/story/fish-have-a-brain-microbiome-could-humans-have-one-too/
The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.
Could Synthetic Cow Embryos Spark a Reproductive Revolution?
https://ambrook.com/research/technology/watch-out-for-those-blastoids
Stem cell-derived embryos could make high-quality genetics more accessible than ever — if scientists can finally generate a live birth.
Meet the Anthrobots
https://thoughtforms.life/meet-the-anthrobots-a-new-living-entity-with-much-to-teach-us/
Created from just a single human donor cell, these small-scale biobots offer remarkable healing effects and a glimpse into regenerative medicine’s future
First-ever quantum-grade nanodiamonds can revolutionize bioimaging, sensing
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/nanodiamonds-revolutionize-quantum-sensing
Quantum sensors can detect anomalies that normal hi-tech sensors can’t, but to make them we need diamonds.
