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Scenario prompt 16 September 2025
The scenario prompts for today is pragmatic climate-focussed innovation. Look at Austrialia´s climate risk assessment. CEOs see it as an opportunity in strategy and culture. It is the perfect hook for transformation and reinvention. If you do it now, it will give you a competitive advantage.
The other prompts are 25 books about AI, a robot motor cortex, AR in the USA military, printing placentas and printing organoid skin.
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Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
‘Cascading, compounding’: five key takeaways from Australia’s national climate risk assessment
Embrace climate change as an opportunity.
Agility Robotics explains how to train a whole-body control foundation model
https://www.therobotreport.com/agility-robotics-explains-train-whole-body-control-foundation-model/
Agility Robotics has developed a whole-body control foundation model for its Digit humanoid robot to ensure it remains safe and stable while performing a wide variety of tasks. It functions much like the motor cortex in the human brain, taking signals from different parts of the brain.
U.S. Army Reportedly Taps Anduril & Rivet to Compete in Revamped XR Headset Military Contract
https://www.roadtovr.com/u-s-army-anduril-meta-rivet-ivas-sbmc-ar-combat-headset/
The U.S. Army has chosen defense startups Anduril and Rivet to compete against one another in its revamped Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) project, now called the Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC), which is slated to integrate AR headsets into combat roles.
From smart rings to health coaching: AI and the new preventive healthcare paradigm
Wearables and AI are transforming preventive healthcare by enabling early detection, personalised coaching, and continuous monitoring
6 emerging technologies that will impact your business in 2026
https://www.imd.org/blog/digital-transformation/emerging-technologies/
AI, quantum, cyber security, IoT, robotics and climate-focused innovation
9 in 10 CEOs See a Stronger Business Case for Sustainability; Nearly All Plan to Maintain or Expand Commitments, UN Global Compact-Accenture 2025 CEO Study Finds
CEOs call for a new era of pragmatic execution that embeds sustainability in strategy and culture (96%).
Mini Placentas 3D-Printed in a Lab in Amazing World First
https://www.sciencealert.com/mini-placentas-3d-printed-in-a-lab-in-amazing-world-first
With placental organoids, we can start piecing together the puzzle of pregnancy complications and test new drugs safely.
Scientists Hope 3D-Printed Skin Can Bring On-Demand Treatment for Serious Injuries
New bioprinting techniques make it possible to 3D print skin with complex networks of blood vessels.
