Mind candy are prompts to help you to keep up to date, develop strategic responses to trends and train your change muscle, making you more resilient and agile for the future. If you need help with developing these prompts, you can book a free appointment here. If you want me to speak at your event, contact me at ron@ronimmink.com
How to use the prompts
Become a trend watcher yourself. Use these prompts to explore their relevance, assess opportunities and threats, and analyse timelines and impacts on your organisation. Consider multiple possible futures across varying time horizons—1, 3, 5, and 10 years.
Scenario prompts 24 January 2025
Todays prompts are solar, exponential AI acceleration, knittable seawater batteries, AI-enabled decision making, the future 100 for 2025, the top 15 global trends for 2025, From Predicting to Preempting, elderly care in Singapore, bugbots, and my take on “Hello, Future!: The World in 2035″ (a cracker of a book).
Read “Hello, Future!: The World in 2035″
A Desert Full of Power: Gargantuan Solar Array 250-Miles Long to Power Beijing
At 250 miles long, 3 miles wide, and currently generating 5.4 gigawatts, the Kubuqi Desert solar array will be the world’s largest by a country mile when finished in 2030.
Global Economies Lack Preparation for Exponential AI Acceleration
As artificial intelligence advances at an unprecedented pace, global economies will invariably struggle to keep up, facing mounting challenges in policy, workforce adaptation, and economic stability.
Knittable yarn battery uses seawater to light up fishing nets, life jackets
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/yarn-battery-could-transform-ocean-energy-tech
The design uses the features of seawater to its advantage by utilizing the sodium, chloride, and sulfate ions as the electrolyte.
4 Leadership Strategies For AI-Enabled Decision Making
The Cloud-Clock Dilemma and lessons from biology.
VML Intelligence’s “The Future 100: 2025”
https://www.vml.com/insight/the-future-100-2025
A year of possibilities, where new realities are in the making, human potential is being redefined, and propelled by AI, a new creative economy is emerging.
Top 15 Global Trends For 2025
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarwantsingh/2025/01/22/top-15-global-trends-for-2025/
Trump 2-0, Muskonomics, quantum, green molecules, energy storage, data, biotech, precision fermentation, spatial computing, and bots.
The Predictive Turn | Preparing to Outthink Adversaries Through Predictive Analytics
From Predicting to Preempting
Singapore is turning to AI to care for its rapidly aging population
https://restofworld.org/2025/singapore-ai-eldercare-tools/
The country has a dire shortage of nurses, so to fill the manpower gap, it’s using AI for preventive care.
MIT’s Latest Bug Robot Is a Super Flyer. It Could One Day Help Bees Pollinate Crops.
The bot does acrobatic double flips faster than a fruit fly and stays aloft 100 times longer than other robots.
The 6 driving forces and the 32 scenario prompts for 20235
https://www.ronimmink.com/the-6-driving-forces-and-the-32-scenario-prompts-for-20235/
“Hello, Future!: The World in 2035″ is probably one of the best books I read on foresight. It is excellent. Framed in the current perma-crisis or poly-crisis, with the possibility of everything going wrong unendingly, no relief or resolution in sight, ever, nonstop, and inescapable.
