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The topics are strategy, AI product managers, soil microbes combating desertification, wearable electronics, merging with Tardigrades, mixed reality and AI, implantable batteries, super-exponential, bits transmitted 4.5 million times faster than broadband, split sized brain interfaces, robotic fish, plants as metal miners and running your business as a jungle,
None of this is April’s fool.
Why Isn’t Your Strategy Sticking?
https://hbr.org/2024/03/why-isnt-your-strategy-sticking
Understand the environment in which the strategy will live and operate.
The Rise of the AI Product Manager
https://medium.com/@LiatBenZur/the-rise-of-the-ai-product-manager-8e90ecf8067c
Companies are racing to integrate AI into their products to stay ahead of the competition.
Mighty microbes: Soil microorganisms are combating desertification
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-mighty-microbes-soil-microorganisms-combating.html?
How a diverse community of bacteria, fungi, archaea and other microorganisms play vital roles in promoting soil health, ultimately impacting ecosystem functions and sustainable land management.
Super permeable wearable electronics developed for stable, long-term biosignal monitoring
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-super-permeable-wearable-electronics-stable.html?
Super wearable electronics that are lightweight, stretchable and increase sweat permeability by 400-fold
Scientists Put Tardigrade Proteins Into Human Cells. Here’s What Happened.
A new study found that expressing key tardigrade proteins in human cells slowed metabolism, providing critical insights into how these virtually indestructible invertebrates can survive under the most extreme conditions.
In an AI World, Everyone Will Need to Come Home
Our fragile, introverted society is about to be given the Godlike power of world creation. Current AI technology allows us to generate anything we want, personalized and on-demand: newscasts, games, porn, friends, romantic partners, video, the dead – entire worlds.
Chinese researchers engineer implantable batteries, sustained by body oxygen
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/oxygen-run-battery-medical-devices?
Researchers have developed a new type of battery that runs on oxygen in the body and never runs out of power
How AI could explode the economy
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24108787/ai-economic-growth-explosive-automation
A superexponential story makes future increases in the rate of economic growth look very plausible.
Blazing bits transmitted 4.5 million times faster than broadband
https://newatlas.com/technology/faster-than-broadband-fiber-optic/
An international research team has sent an astounding amount of data at a nearly incomprehensible speed
Salt-Size Sensors Mimic the Brain
https://spectrum.ieee.org/brain-machine-interface-2667619198
An array of tiny wireless nodes could someday find their way into brain-machine interfaces
Get Ready for the Robotic Fish Revolution
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/get-ready-for-the-robotic-fish-revolution/?
Scientists say swarms of robotic fish could soon make traditional underwater research vehicles obsolete.
These Plants Could Mine Valuable Metals From the Soil With Their Roots
The concept of phytomining has been around for a while and relies on a class of plants known as “hyperaccumulators.”
Run Your Business Like A Jungle: Tips For Leaders Looking To Drive Their Company’s Future