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 – 3 November 2025
The scenario prompt for today is how AI, XR, digital twins are set to transform robotics. It shows how you can play LEGO with a wide variety of technologies. LEGO is just the first level of technology abstraction and this will become more and more granular, creating an endless world of possibilities and opportunity.
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
- Logic
- China
- Geometric coding
- Mushroom computers
- Science fiction
- Ray Kurzweil
- Organoids (human-pig hybrid kidney)
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.
Why Silicon Valley’s obsession with logic is breaking the world
https://www.fastcompany.com/91427820/silicon-valley-logic-obsession-breaking-the-world
Read this too https://www.ronimmink.com/storythinking-over-logic/
China Is Building the Future
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/united-states-china-technology/684754/
Thee buzzword of the year in China is involution, which refers to excessive competition with ever-slimmer profit margins
Scientists uncover hidden ‘geometric code’ that helps DNA compute and remember
https://interestingengineering.com/science/second-language-human-genome-geometric-code
A new Northwestern study reveals a second language of life, a geometric code that shapes how our genome thinks.
Mushrooms May Replace Metal in Future Computers — And You Could Build One At Home
Learn how scientists found a way to turn mushrooms into computer chips and how these living computers can make the future of technology more sustainable.
Why Silicon Valley’s vision of the future is broken—and how to fix it
Nick Foster, an ex-Google futurist, argues big tech’s imagination has been hijacked by sci-fi and earnings calls. He offers a simple way for any leader to get back to what made Silicon Valley great.
Opinion: Ray Kurzweil’s Predictions — AI Today and Tomorrow
https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/opinion-ray-kurzweils-predictions-ai-today-and-tomorrow
Twenty years ago, inventor and author Ray Kurzweil made predictions about the future of technology and artificial intelligence that arguably came true. His predictions today have implications for education and beyond.
AI, XR, digital twins set to transform robotics
https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/AI-XR-digital-twins-set-to-transform-robotics
Embodied AI goes beyond robotics in the strict sense and applies to smart systems and infrastructures more generally. It extends the capabilities of AI to physical systems – such as buildings, robots and autonomous vehicles like cars, trucks and robotaxis – and by integrating machine learning and computer vision, these systems can unlock the potential of generative AI applications in physical industries.
Pigs receive world’s first kidney transplants grown with human organoid tissue
https://interestingengineering.com/science/pigs-receive-worlds-first-kidney-transplants
Scientists have successfully combined human kidney organoids with pig kidneys and transplanted them back into the same animal, therefore creating the world’s first functional human-pig hybrid kidney.
