I help organisations become future-fit. #Mindcandy scenario prompts are designed to stretch your imagination, sharpen situational awareness, and spark opportunity thinking.
Today’s scenario prompt:
AI-driven workflows allows teams to provide input to a robotic arm and “speak objects into existence,” creating things like furniture in as little as five minutes. It is another example of how technology abstraction will drive innovation. Tools are no longer the issue. But culture, autonomy, guiding principles, shared purpose, etc. will be.
CEO question
Ff your teams could turn ideas into products in hours, what are your non-negotiables—and who owns the stop button?
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You are the upgrade
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Cell-Sized Robots Can Sense, Decide, And Move Without Outside Control
https://studyfinds.org/cell-sized-robots-can-sense-decide-move/
Researchers built autonomous robots just 210-340 micrometers wide, roughly the size of a paramecium, that contain an onboard computer, sensors, memory, and propulsion systems.
Stanford AI Experts Predict What Will Happen in 2026
AI sovereignty, opening the black box, legal AI, the bubble, medicine, AGI, dashboards, bypassing the enterprise and human centred.
https://hai.stanford.edu/news/stanford-ai-experts-predict-what-will-happen-in-2026
If a Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why wouldn’t the brain?
Did you know migratory birds and sea turtles are able to navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field? It’s called magnetoreception.
https://1393.xyz/writing/if-a-meta-ai-model-can-read-a-brain-wide-signal-why-wouldnt-the-brain
With AI, MIT researchers teach a robot to build furniture by just asking
This AI-driven workflow allows the MIT team to provide input to a robotic arm and “speak objects into existence,” creating things like furniture in as little as five minutes.
https://www.therobotreport.com/mit-researchers-use-ai-teach-a-robot-build-furniture-just-asking/
Tiny Garden Insect Holds The Key To Mass-Produced Invisibility Tech
Leafhoppers have been hiding in plain sight, literally. These garden insects coat themselves with microscopic particles that scatter visible light and absorb ultraviolet wavelengths, creating an effective invisibility shield against predators with UV vision.
https://scienceblog.com/tiny-garden-insect-holds-the-key-to-mass-produced-invisibility-tech/
What happened to Quantified Self?
The “Quantified Self” movement, once a significant part of tech and tech-adjacent culture, has largely fizzled out, at least under that name. Here are some candidate explanations.
https://www.natemeyvis.com/what-happened-to-quantified-self/
