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How to use the prompts
Use these prompts to explore their relevance, assess opportunities and threats, and analyse timelines and impacts on your organisation. Consider multiple possible futures across 1, 3, 5, and 10 years time horizons.
Scenario prompts 17 April 2025
Todays prompts are chaos marketing, cultured chicken nuggets, bipedal, musculoskeletal androids, leadership, hacking DNA, precision fermentation, living concrete, and leisure crafting.
Now I am worried. Hacking DNA.
When Did Chaos Get Safe?
https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/when-did-chaos-get-safe/
In 2025, you can have all the brand guidelines in the world, but ultimately you don’t control your brand. The internet does.
Lab-grown chicken ‘nuggets’ hailed as ‘transformative step’ for cultured meat
Researchers are claiming a breakthrough in lab-grown meat after producing nugget-sized chunks of chicken in a device that mimics the blood vessels that make up the circulatory system.
Nightmare” Protoclone Features Muscular Body, Synthetic Organs
https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/clone-robotics-protoclone/
Protoclone is described as “the world’s first bipedal, musculoskeletal android,” and this lifelike body goes so far as to feature synthetic organs housed in a polymer skeleton that was made to replicate more than 200 human bones.
Learning to lead: how to stay on top of tech trends
https://www.raconteur.net/leadership/learning-to-lead-tech-forward
Business leaders must stay on top of any trend that could impact their business, their rivals, their customers or the market in which they operate. This is essential to staying competitive and making informed, strategic decisions. See https://www.ronimmink.com/strategy-development/
DNA Vulnerable to Hacking as Cyber Threats Target Genomics
https://scienceblog.substack.com/p/dna-vulnerable-to-hacking-as-cyber
Next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) – the cornerstone of precision medicine and genetic research – faces growing security vulnerabilities that experts warn could compromise sensitive genetic information, privacy, and even national security.
What’s new on our Periodic Table of Precision Fermentation?
https://www.rethinkx.com/blog/whats-new-on-the-periodic-table-april-2025
There are many exciting novel food technologies but precision fermentation is the more disruptive technology on all fronts.
Self-repairing buildings? Engineers make living concrete in construction breakthrough
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/self-repairing-buildings-living-concrete
The fungus species Neurospora shows potential in creating building materials with intricate internal structures and diverse architectural forms.
Research: How “Leisure Crafting” Can Help You Recharge
https://hbr.org/2025/04/research-how-leisure-crafting-can-help-you-recharge
“Leisure crafting”—a proactive approach to structuring free time that emphasizes goal-setting, human connection, learning, and personal development.
