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Today’s scenario prompt: digital ecosystems
With the developments with AI, wearables and spatial computing, the race to build the next connected ecosystem is on. Your success will depend on designing identities that move fluidly across physical, digital and emotional worlds. The operative word is fluid. If every company becomes an ecosystem what role will yours play in the fluid identities of your customers and employees?
If every brand is becoming an ecosystem —what role will your organisation play in the fluid, connected identities of your customers and employees?
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/
Towards Humanist Superintelligence
Here’s a question that’s not getting the attention it deserves: what kind of AI does the world really want? I think it’s probably the most important question of our time.
https://microsoft.ai/news/towards-humanist-superintelligence/
What has Changed the Most for Strategy
Strategy is more important than ever in this deterministic, speedy and peaky business context.
https://rogermartin.medium.com/what-has-changed-the-most-for-strategy-84e216891d60
Robots get new ‘brain’ system inspired by birds, ants to navigate without GPS
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/robots-get-brain-to-navigate-without-gps
Researchers have reportedly built a new navigation system based on how certain animals navigate the world around them. Focussed primarily on animals such as ants, birds, and mice.
Two visions for the future of AR smart glasses
Should augmented reality immerse users or blend into daily life?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/two-visions-for-smart-glasses
Why Silicon Valley’s Obsession With Logic Is Breaking the World
Read https://www.ronimmink.com/storythinking-over-logic/
https://digitaltonto.com/2025/why-silicon-valleys-obsession-with-logic-is-breaking-the-world/
Unlocking Ayurveda’s potential to create a $500bn industry
With scientific validation, regulatory alignment, and credible branding, India could build a $500 billion Ayurveda economy, creating millions of skilled jobs and establishing global leadership in natural medicine.
https://www.policycircle.org/opinion/ayurveda-opportunity/
Brand in the new era of digital ecosystems: businesses built for connection
With Meta betting big on AI, wearables and spatial computing, the race to build the next connected ecosystem is on. For brands, success will depend on designing identities that move fluidly across physical, digital and emotional worlds
Clecell Turns Stem Cells into 3D Printed Human Skin in the Lab
Biotech startup Clecell has achieved what many tissue engineers have long sought: a reproducible, full-thickness human skin built entirely from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), using bioprinting.
https://3dprint.com/322047/clecell-turns-stem-cells-into-3d-printed-human-skin-in-the-lab/
One of World’s Most Detailed Virtual Brain Simulations is Changing How We Study the Brain
Scientists use supercomputer that can process quadrillions of calculations per second to simulate mouse cortex for “virtual experiments”
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