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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 25 April 2025
Todays prompts are lab grown chocolate, corporate sustainability, origami-inspired 3D printing, strategic positioning, greenwashing, artificial leafs, anti-ageing, AI welfare, liquid robots and “The Popcorn Report”.
Re-read “The Popcorn Report”
The secrets of lab-grown chocolate
https://theweek.com/culture-life/food-drink/the-secrets-of-lab-grown-chocolate
Lab-grown chocolate is created through a procedure called cellular agriculture, where cocoa bean cells are cultured in a vat of sugary water, similar to how plant cells are cultivated, and then processed to produce a chocolate product.
Corporate Sustainability Is in Crisis. What Should Companies Do Now?
https://hbr.org/2025/04/corporate-sustainability-is-in-crisis-what-should-companies-do-now
Planetary realities will shape politics and new business models are transforming sustainability into a source of profit and competitive advantage.
Engineer reinvents ceramics with origami-inspired 3D printing
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-reinvents-ceramics-origami-3d.html
In a breakthrough that blends ancient design with modern materials science, researchers have developed a new class of ceramic structures that can bend under pressure—without breaking.
Strategic Positioning in Turbulent Times
https://www.innosight.com/insight/strategic-positioning-in-turbulent-times/
As companies navigate uncertainty, they need to shift from predicting the future to purposefully positioning for it.
A surprising group of greenwashing victims: corporate purchasing managers
Even people who buy things for a living struggle to identify sustainable products—underscoring how complex the sustainability certification landscape has become
Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf That Uses Sunlight to Produce Valuable Chemicals
To build a system that mimics photosynthesis, they followed the natural processes that occur in the leaf of a plant. Each individual component of a leaf’s photosynthesizing elements had to be replicated and refined.
8 Startup Opportunities In Anti-Ageing
https://www.forbes.com/sites/abdoriani/2025/04/23/8-startup-opportunities-in-anti-ageing/
Gene editing, senolytics, AI, drugs, microbiome, wearables, personalisation, regenerative therapies, tissue engineering, and cognitive health.
Anthropic launches AI welfare research program
https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/24/anthropic-launches-ai-welfare-research-program/
The nascent field of AI welfare research revolves around two main questions. The first is whether tomorrow’s neural networks could achieve a form of consciousness. The other question, in turn, is what kind of steps could be taken to improve AI welfare if the answer to the first question is positive.
Particle-armoured liquid robot can pass through metal bars
https://superinnovators.com/2025/04/particle-armoured-liquid-robot-can-pass-through-metal-bars/
A liquid robot capable of transforming, separating, and fusing freely like living cells has been developed.
From 1991 to 2045: Tracking the Trajectory of a Popcorn Prediction
Follow Faith Popcorn.
