The future is future fitness. The advantage isn’t prediction. It’s how fast your team can notice change and respond.
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Today’s prompt: the silver economy
Vietnam repositions older citizens as economic assets under long-term ageing strategy. The country has approved a national strategy on older persons to expand their employment, health care access, and social participation, as policymakers seek to tap the underdeveloped ‘silver economy’ ahead of a major demographic transition. When you make a distinction between hard and soft trends, demographics are always a hard trend. A sure bet. What are your opportunities in the silver economy?
The business owner question
If 30% of your revenue had to come from customers aged 60+ within 18 months, what would you build first—and what would you kill immediately?
The 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/
Vietnam repositions older citizens as economic assets under long-term ageing strategy
The country has approved a national strategy on older persons to expand their employment, health care access, and social participation, as policymakers seek to tap the underdeveloped ‘silver economy’ ahead of a major demographic transition.
S&P Global Unveils Top 10 Sustainability Trends to Watch in 2026
Geopolitics, adaption, energy, AI, data centres, water, supply chains, biodiversity, standards, finance and ageing.
What does ‘Internet of Things’ mean in 2026?
The emergence of the Artificial Intelligence of Things, or AIoT, in which systems identify patterns and trends, deliver actionable insights, make predictions, and then automate actions.
https://www.iotinsider.com/iot-insights/what-does-internet-of-things-mean-in-2026/
Reflection is a Crucial Leadership Skill
Reflection isn’t optional. It’s what keeps you sharp, adaptive, and intentional. The best leaders aren’t the ones who have it all figured out. They’re the ones who keep asking better questions.
https://kevingoldsmith.substack.com/p/reflection-is-a-leadership-skill
Self-healing composite can make airplane, automobile and spacecraft components last for centuries
Researchers have created a self-healing composite that is tougher than materials currently used in aircraft wings, turbine blades and other applications—and can repair itself more than 1,000 times.
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-composite-airplane-automobile-spacecraft-components.html
Next Gen Innovations Navigating the Future of Technology
Intelligent systems and augmented decision making, autonomous and self-optimizing technologies, immersive digital environments and next-generation connectivity and distributed intelligence.
https://www.precedenceresearch.com/insights/next-gen-technology-innovations-future-strategy
Steve Wozniak on AI Hype, Tesla and What Movies Get Wrong
We can program in a bunch of algorithms, but it’s not going to be like a real thing. No person is predictable. …We call it [intelligence] but it’s not like intelligence, because it doesn’t have the emotions.”
https://thenewstack.io/steve-wozniak-on-tesla-artificial-intelligence-apple/
Predictions 2026: ‘Green gridlock will hit every economy’
It’s a paradox we’re seeing play out across the globe: the faster a country moves on clean energy, the sooner it collides with transmission constraints.” Renewables grow, but grid capacity is left lacking, leading to lengthy connection queues and racking up huge costs in delayed projects and lost investment
https://www.enlit.world/library/predictions-2026-green-gridlock-will-hit-every-economy
