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Scenario prompts 10 December 2024
Today’s prompts are stretchable batteries, tapeworms, desert ants, Apple intelligence, AI Jesus, micro technologies, mushroom robots, humanoids, twinning agriculture, and accountability.
Use the prompts to question relevance, opportunity vs threat, if vs when, timelines, impact and responses. Consider multiple futures and different time horizons.
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Stretchable and self-healable lithium-ion battery
https://www.rdworldonline.com/stretchable-and-self-healable-lithium-ion-battery/
Stretchable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are promising as power sources of stretchable and wearable electronic devices, such as electronic skin, soft robotics, and wearable mobile phones
A tapeworm-inspired, tissue-anchoring mechanism for medical devices
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-12-tapeworm-tissue-anchoring-mechanism-medical.html
To mimic the circular hook-like attachment organ found in several species of intestinal tapeworms as an initial proof of concept, the researchers used a multi-material, layer-by-layer fabrication method inspired by the printed circuit board industry.
On-chip integrated polarization photodetector inspired by desert ants
Polarization photodetectors are increasingly utilized in fields such as geological remote sensing, machine vision, and biological medicine.
The Inside Story of Apple Intelligence
https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-the-inside-story-of-apple-intelligence/
Apple’s leaders claim the company wasn’t late to generative AI, but instead following what has become its familiar playbook: try to be the best, not the first.
Can AI Jesus Absolve Your Sins?
https://gizmodo.com/can-ai-jesus-absolve-your-sins-2000535482
A Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional booth. It won’t do much for your eternal soul.
2025 Predictions: How Micro Technologies Will Transform the Future
https://displaydaily.com/2025-predictions-how-micro-technologies-will-transform-the-future/
In 2024, groundbreaking advancements in miniaturization, scalable manufacturing, and AI integration ushered in a new era for micro technologies.
Scientists Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body And Let It Run Wild
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-gave-a-mushroom-a-robot-body-and-let-it-run-wild
By growing mycelium into the electronics of a robot, we were able to allow the biohybrid machine to sense and respond to the environment.
Alpha: Water-powered humanoid robot with synthetic organs, muscles unveiled
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/clone-alpha-humanoid-robot-unveiled-poland
Clone’s Myofiber technology uses artificial muscles to move the skeleton by attaching them to precise bone points, like animals.
The Twin of Your Farm
https://ambrook.com/research/technology/digital-twins-precision-agriculture
Based on aerospace innovations, “digital twins” of crops, fields, and livestock are an emergent new precision agriculture tool.
Military Director Presence On Boards Of Directors Increase The Likelihood Of CEO Accountability For Poor Firm Performance
Time to read https://www.ronimmink.com/extreme-ownership-as-the-leadership-style/
