The future is future fitness. The advantage isn’t prediction. It’s how fast your team can notice change and respond. Pick one mindcandy prompt below. Discuss it. Decide your moves. Do you want you a repeatable operating rhythm to sense signals early, decide priorities faster, and act with real strategic options? Click here.
Today’s prompt: programmable reality (and the governance gap)
LLMs are being studied like “aliens” because we still don’t fully understand what we’ve created.
Fungi are being explored as low-energy computing substrates. Teams are racing to 3D bioprint functional organs to solve donor shortages. Individually, these sound like science fiction.
Together, they point to something very practical: More of the world becomes programmable. Compute, biology, materials, workflows, even “knowledge work” shift from fixed systems to editable substrates. When that happens, competitive advantage moves fast:
- Capability gets cheaper.
- Speed of imitation increases.
- The bottleneck becomes trust, compliance, ownership of data, and control of deployment.
So don’t ask, “Is this real?” Ask, “If this becomes normal, what breaks in my business model?”
The business owner question
When AI + bio + manufacturing become cheap and widely available, what will be the scarce asset you deliberately own in your market: proprietary data, regulated trust, distribution, or customer relationships — and what are you doing this quarter to lock it in?
All the the prompts
My latest book about books about AI: 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/
US projects to 3D bioprint livers, hearts and kidneys using immune-matched cells
A University-led team is developing a functional 3D bioprinted liver for transplant.
The project, aims to address the shortage of donor organs by developing bioengineered tissue to treat acute liver failure.
https://interestingengineering.com/health/3d-bioprinted-organs-transplant
From a new flagship space telescope to lunar exploration, global cooperation – and competition – will make 2026 an exciting year for space
The Moon, Mars, space travel and solar.
How AI Agents In Citizen Development Will Create A Governance Crisis
The original promise of no-code-based citizen development platforms was accessibility. Business users could build simple apps or automate manual processes without waiting in IT backlogs. For security leaders, the risks were clear but containable: Users worked within predefined templates and environments. Those boundaries are now gone.
Scientists Create Living Computers Powered by Mushrooms
What if living organisms could perform some of the tasks handled by silicon chips? New research suggests fungal systems can exhibit memory-like electrical behavior, opening the door to unconventional, low-energy computing architectures.
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-create-living-computers-powered-by-mushrooms/
Engineers just created a “phonon laser” that could shrink your next smartphone
Engineers have created a device that generates incredibly tiny, earthquake-like vibrations on a microchip—and it could transform future electronics. Unlike today’s bulky setups, this single-chip device could deliver far higher performance using less power, opening the door to smaller, faster, and more efficient phones and wireless devices.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260116035319.htm
Strategic Reset: The 7 Interconnected Forces
The Seven forces are AI, American Aspiration, Bio-Pharmaceuticals, China, Demographics, Energy and Immigration.
https://rishad.substack.com/p/strategic-reset-the-7-interconnected
We’re about to simulate a human brain on a supercomputer
The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models will offer unprecedented insights into how our brains work
Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens
By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some of their secrets for the first time.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/12/1129782/ai-large-language-models-biology-alien-autopsy/
