#Mindcandy are scenario prompts prompts to help companies formulate strategy.
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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 11 April 2025
Todays prompts are haptic interfaces, sustainability and profitability, resurrection, climate foresight, precision-designed states of consciousness (you are the upgrade), the ‘nocebo’ effect, construction and the 3-person unicorn startup.
You are the upgrade.
No skin needed: Robots learn to feel human touch with internal sensors, AI
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/german-scientists-give-robots-human-touch-feel
The method enables robots to sense and interpret human touch without requiring costly synthetic biomimetic skins or extra sensors to cover their surface.
How Sustainability And Profitability Are More Intertwined Than Ever
One of the most common (and problematic) myths circulating the business world today is that profitability is a trade-off to sustainability—that these two concepts are somehow opposing forces.
The composer still making music four years after his death – thanks to an artificial brain
In Australia, a team of artists and scientists have resurrected the US composer Alvin Lucier.
Too Far Ahead, Until It’s Not
https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/too-far-ahead-until-its-not
We’re seeing a sea change in climate foresight. An abrupt collision with reality, that is snapping forward a whole set of conversations about strategy, the future and the perils and opportunities of our moment.
The next era of psychedelics may be precision-designed states of consciousness
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/ai-psychedelics-mindstate/
Programming consciousness. You are the upgrade. See https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
You can catch the ‘nocebo’ effect from family, friends – even social media. But what is it, actually?
The nocebo effect is the opposite of the placebo effect.
Robots to help build 181-foot building from wood in just 90 days
https://interestingengineering.com/photo-story/robots-to-help-build-timber-building
A Vancouver-based innovator is bringing mass timber, robotics, and advanced automation together in Etobicoke Lakeshore to reduce construction timelines and carbon footprints dramatically
The 3-Person Unicorn Startup
https://www.nfx.com/post/the-3-person-unicorn-startup
Small has become a compounding advantage—lower burn, faster iteration, less dilution, more fun.
