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Scenario prompts 31 October 2024
Use the prompts to question things such as relevance, opportunity vs threat, if vs when, timelines, impact and responses. Consider multiple futures.
Today’s prompts are The Astana Times (again), retail, AI agents in marketing, China, biodiversity credits, war-games, psychedelics and VR, education, cloning and biosynthetics, impact printing, and electro-agriculture.
Every CEO should play Xbox.
Rather than measuring economic output, we should measure how happy we are
Also read https://www.ronimmink.com/you-get-what-you-measure-and-that-is-precisely-the-problem-with-gdp/
The Future Of Retail: 10 Game-Changing Trends That Will Define 2025
AI, supply chain transparency and resilience, second hand, VR, autonomous retail and climate.
The AI Agents Are Coming — Is Your Brand Ready?
https://medium.com/ipg-media-lab/the-ai-agents-are-coming-is-your-brand-ready-f6c493b1ccb0
AI assistants will soon be doing most of the buying for us, and an AI will have no brand connectome, brand preference, or brand loyalty and will have full access to all the information it needs.
US Efforts to Contain Xi’s Push for Tech Supremacy Are Faltering
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-us-china-containment/
Of 13 key technologies tracked by Bloomberg researchers, China has achieved a global leadership position in five of them and is catching up fast in seven others.
How biodiversity credits could help to conserve and restore nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03475-2
Biodiversity-credit markets could succeed in ways that, so far, carbon-credit markets have not — as long as the right rules of play are in place from the start.
A Million People Play This Video Wargame. So Does the Pentagon.
A commercial military simulation software, originally inspired by Tom Clancy novels, has become an unexpected tool for military training across NATO forces and defense analysts worldwide. Command: Professional Edition
How psychedelics and VR could reveal how we become immersed in reality
Research will monitor the brains of people dosed with DMT while they wear a virtual reality headset
School is Not Enough
https://map.simonsarris.com/p/school-is-not-enough
The purpose of education is to develop agency within a child.
Uncovering new medicines from nature fast
https://springwise.com/innovation/health-wellbeing/uncovering-new-medicines-from-nature-at-scale/
This system speeds up new drug discovery using cloning and biosynthetics
“Impact printing” is a cement-free alternative to 3D-printed structures
Impact printing uses Earth-based materials such as sand, silt, clay, and gravel to make homes.
With “electro-agriculture,” plants can produce food in the dark and with 94% less land, bioengineers say
The method essentially replaces photosynthesis with a solar-powered chemical reaction that more efficiently converts CO2 into an organic molecule that plants would be genetically engineered to “eat.”
