The future is future fitness. The advantage isn’t prediction. It’s how fast your leadership team can notice and anticipate change and respond.
Today’s prompt: AI is getting scary good at making predictions
They have just invented cyborg pigeons. Pushing the boundaries of neurotechnology by implanting pigeons with brain electrodes and control their flight. Flying 300 kilometres (without batteries).
The question is whether this is predictable and relevant. If you follow trends it is definitely predictable. You just have to follow nano technology, programmable biology and brain computer interface technologies. Always useful to read up on Kurzweil.
However, it is not about the predictability and it is not about AI (apart from being the accelerant for the aforementioned technologies). It is about your ability to respond to these development.
- https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/ai-prediction-human-forecasters/685955/
- https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/moscow-startup-turns-birds-into-drones
The prompt:
As potential competitors start to merge biology with technology, how will this impact on our business model. What is the time frame? How do we prepare now? Discuss this with your leadership team, and decide your moves. If you need help with this, DM me.
Other 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/
Compost modernity!
The vision of solarpunk: joining nature with technology in vibrantly inclusive ways to create a world that truly blooms
https://aeon.co/essays/in-solarpunk-cities-of-the-future-tech-follows-natures-lead
Harvard prints soft-robotics filaments with hollow channels that deform in a controlled way using compressed air
Soft robotics is seen as a natural approach for applications where classical mechanics reach their limits—for example, when interacting with delicate tissue or gripping irregular objects
The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace AI the most
AI is a force multiplier. You become a more capable, more indispensable lawyer, consultant, writer, coder, financial analyst — and so on. The tools work for you, you work less hard, everybody wins. But a new study published in Harvard Business Review follows that premise to its actual conclusion, and what it finds there isn’t a productivity revolution. It finds companies are at risk of becoming burnout machines.
Engineers Just Developed a Perfect Material for a Truly Unsinkable Ship
A new kind of superhydrophobic metal, inspired by a water-dwelling spider, could form the foundational tech for “unsinkable” ships. The structure uses laser-etched nano- and microscale metals that trap air bubbles to enhance superhydrophobic properties, and a new divider makes these structures even more reliable in turbulent waters.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a70178967/hydrophobic-metal-unsinkable-ship/
Why New Technologies Don’t Transform Incumbents
Many incumbent companies are adopting AI aggressively yet seeing only marginal gains, because they are using it to optimize existing work rather than to rethink how work itself is organized. The real advantage of AI lies in its ability to break work into smaller units and enable new forms of coordination, which can make some familiar strategies obsolete while unlocking entirely new ones.
https://hbr.org/2026/02/why-new-technologies-dont-transform-incumbents
Scaling a company is one thing, scaling judgement is another
Scaling a company is not just about product and growth. It’s about building a culture that can handle pressure, difference and uncertainty without losing trust.
https://startupsmagazine.co.uk/scaling-a-company-is-one-thing-scaling-judgement-is-another
Living skin sensor for health monitoring
Researchers are developing a living sensor display consisting of an engineered skin graft that fluoresces in response to specific biomarkers
https://springwise.com/healthy-society/living-skin-sensor-for-health-monitoring/
AI Is Getting Scary Good at Making Predictions
Even superforecasters are guessing that they’ll soon be obsolete.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/ai-prediction-human-forecasters/685955/
Predicting the future is easy — deciding what to do is the hard part
Uncertainty is an integral aspect of business operations. Conventional business intelligence tools can be helpful for historical data reporting, but fail to anticipate future risks and opportunities with accuracy. To develop more effective business and financial strategies, enterprises employ predictive and prescriptive analytics.
