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Stop predicting
Employees are suffering from change fatigue. Leaders need to balance stability with reinvention. The strongest leaders are not the ones disrupting the most. They are the ones disrupting most consciously. Prediction encourages organisations to chase whatever looks important next: AI, agents, quantum, new business models, new structures, new operating models. Every new signal becomes another transformation initiative. Scanning is different.
It asks:
- What is actually changing?
- What matters to us?
- What should we respond to?
- And, critically, what should we leave alone?
It is the ability to know what to change, when to change it, and what needs to remain stable while you do it. That is why I wrote, “Stop predicting: 13 lessons from 1,400 attempts to see what was coming.” Available on Amazon.
The future fitness move
Divide your agenda into three buckets: protect, adapt, reinvent. Be explicit about what must remain stable, what needs incremental adaptation, and what genuinely requires reinvention.
World’s first nanofabricator platform prints atomic-scale semiconductor materials
AI can predict promising new materials, but those predictions still need to survive contact with the real world. ATLANT 3D is addressing that gap with a fabrication system designed to make and test materials at the atomic scale.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/worlds-first-nanofabricator-semiconductor-materials
Designer Enzyme Strips Decades of ‘Rust’ From Aging Human Tissue
This work establishes that damage to aging proteins previously thought to be irreversible can be repaired,
https://singularityhub.com/2026/08/13/designer-enzyme-strips-decades-of-rust-from-aging-human-tissue/
Engineers connect bacteria to create living transistors
MIT researchers have engineered bacteria that can function as transistors, allowing the team to create living “circuit boards” that can be printed onto a growth medium in a Petri dish.
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-bacteria-transistors.html
Designing the adaptive supply chain
As companies embrace AI orchestration, the real transformation is not automation itself, but the redesign of supply chains into faster, more adaptive decision-making networks
https://www.raconteur.net/finance/designing-the-adaptive-supply-chain
Jellyfish Enable Surprising New Findings about Cancer
The work is a prime example of interdisciplinary collaboration at Caltech. Doyle, an engineer, became interested in applying the principles of the field of control theory to cancer and other biological problems in the early 2000s. A core concept of control theory is the existence feedback loops through which a system—biological or otherwise—takes and adjusts inputs, over and over, to maintain a steady state.
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/jellyfish-enable-surprising-new-findings-about-cancer
Researchers develop electronic skin for prosthetics to sense temperature and pressure
An electronic skin with a sensing system that can detect pressure and temperature could someday be used to help amputees gain feeling in their prosthetics.
3D-printed membrane aims to make artificial lungs more compact and efficient
Researchers have developed a 3D-printable membrane structure designed to improve gas exchange in artificial lungs. The architecture is based on triply periodic minimal surfaces, known as Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces (TPMS). In the long term, it could be used in both implantable biohybrid lungs and more compact ECMO systems.
https://3druck.com/en/research/3d-printed-membrane-aims-to-make-artificial-lungs-more-compact-and-efficient-49161970/
