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Today’s scenario prompt: Talking to the dead
Interactive memory. Digital twinning. Synthetic personas modelled on voice, text, and behaviour. Combine that with programmable biology what do you think the next step will be? Combine that with AI and nanotechnology and you are in the world of Ray Kurzweil and singularity. What happens to the boundary between life and afterlife? What happens to grief, legacy, succession, or even leadership continuity? What happens when you can talk to a past CEO……or a future version of yourself?
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.
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Gene editing produces plants that are indigestible to pests
The potential of gene editing to develop plants that produce these inhibitors in greater quantities to combat insect pests.
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-gene-indigestible-pests.html
Dundee and US surgeons achieve world-first stroke surgery using robot
Prof Iris Grunwald, performed the remote thrombectomy – the removal of blood clots after a stroke. The professor was at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, while the body she was operating on while using the machine was at a university facility.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjw983pvz6lo
Can You Really Talk to the Dead Using AI? We Tried Out ‘Deathbots’ So You Don’t Have To
A growing digital afterlife industry promises to make memory interactive and, in some cases, eternal.
Smart Bandage Uses Electricity and Drugs to Heal Wounds The device uses an AI model to guide the healing process
The device is designed to fit inside a commercial colostomy bandage and contains a camera that takes images of the wound every two hours, as well as a wireless connection to a machine learning module that provides updated recommendations on how to stimulate healing.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/smart-bandage-ai-electrical-stimulation
Scientists grow living, rainbow-hued textiles using color-making bacteria
Researchers have developed a sustainable method for creating and dyeing fabric using living bacteria. In this method, the living bacteria simultaneously grow fabric and dye it in every color of the rainbow.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/bacteria-weave-rainbow-colored-textiles
Huge step forward’: Scientists discover immune reaction behind pig kidney rejection in transplant patients
Researchers have said pig kidneys may help solve the transplant organ shortage.
The next great leap in evolution may lie beyond Earth
How cosmic evolution and human technology are shaping the next phase of life’s story.
https://bigthinkmedia.substack.com/p/the-next-great-leap-in-evolution
Scientists Develop More Efficient Way To Extract Rare Earth Elements Amid Global Trade Tensions
Researchers have created artificial membrane channels that mimic nature’s precision to selectively extract key rare earth elements.
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