I help organisations become future-fit. #Mindcandy scenario prompts are part of that. They are designed to stretch your imagination, sharpen situational awareness, and spark opportunity thinking. Find out more here.
Scenario Prompts – 13 October 2025
The scenario prompt for today is paint drones. It illustrated how the ordinary paint business is exposed to new technology. A drone that paints 20 times faster. I will not even talk about nano paints. As a paint business you have a choice. Embrace or ignore. At a minimum you need to be aware to make that choice.
The other prompts to expand your lens today are:
- You are the upgrade, a summary of 25 books about AI, the conclusion is augmented natural intelligence as the way forward
- Navigating ambiguity
- Change management
- Ayurveda
- 10 climat tech companies
- Astronauts on a chip
- Biohybrid leafs
- Indoor sunshine through LED
- Cement super-capacitors
You are the upgrade
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
Use Design Thinking to Navigate Ambiguity
https://hbr.org/2025/10/use-design-thinking-to-navigate-ambiguity
Navigating ambiguity requires a new skillset—one that leans into our humanity rather than bypasses it. Unlike machines, we bring a biological response to change. And that response, if understood and harnessed, can become a powerful advantage.
Why Change Sticks (or Doesn’t)
https://www.bain.com/insights/why-change-sticks-or-doesnt/
Forget change management—successful execution is not about telling people what to do, it’s about making them want to do it.
Ayurveda goes global: How Indian healing shapes global wellness trends
Ayurveda as a trend
10 Climate Tech Companies to Watch
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1124257/2025-climate-tech-companies-to-watch/
Batteries, cements, gene editing, EVs, recycling, wind turbines, and geothermal.
’20 times faster’: Speedy ‘drone painter’ covers 200 sq ft per minute with ease
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/new-drone-paints-faster-than-humans
One operator can control the Sherpa drone to coat 200+ square feet per minute at half the traditional cost
NASA to Pack Astronauts Onto a Chip in The Name of Space Health
https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-to-pack-astronauts-onto-a-chip-in-the-name-of-space-health
Eventually astronauts-on-chips could be sent out on scouting missions to assess health risks before live humans make the journey.
Biohybrid leaf mimics photosynthesis to turn CO₂ and sunlight into useful chemicals
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-biohybrid-leaf-mimics-photosynthesis-co8322.html
Researchers have developed a hybrid device that combines light-harvesting organic polymers with bacterial enzymes to convert sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into formate, a fuel that can drive further chemical transformations.
Paper-Thin LED Shines Like the Sun Indoors
https://scienceblog.com/sciencechina/2025/10/10/paper-thin-led-shines-like-the-sun-indoors/
Making Light That Feels Like Daylight.
Cement Supercapacitors Could Turn the Concrete Around Us into Massive Energy Storage Systems
Scientists have created a conductive “nanonetwork” inside a unique concrete mixture that could enable everyday structures like walls, sidewalks, and bridges to store and release electrical energy.
