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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 9 April 2025
Todays prompts are Kawasaki, robotics, Ian Banks, semiconductors, business model transformation, Frankenstein laptops, mixed reality, organisational design and chaos engineering.
Read Ian Banks
Kawasaki’s wolf-inspired, four-legged robot lets riders traverse uneven terrain
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/kawasaki-wolf-inspired-robot-riders-uneven-terrain
I want one.
Why robotics is so hot right now
https://www.emergingtechbrew.com/stories/2025/04/03/why-robotics-is-so-hot-right-now
Big Tech is investing in the technology as some claim AI is helping the field reach an inflection point.
Humans, Tech, and AI at the Edge: Key Points for the Future of Security in Free Societies
Ian Banks’ vision of the future is particularly relevant to our current technological inflection point is how he portrays AI not as a monolithic, centralized force, but as distributed intelligence operating at multiple scales – from vast “AI Minds” managing entire habitats to personal drone companions that augment individual human capabilities.
New approach reliably integrates 2D semiconductors with dielectrics
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-04-approach-reliably-2d-semiconductors-dielectrics.html
Researchers have recently developed a new method to integrate 2D semiconductors with dielectric materials, which are insulating materials that help control the flow of electric charge in devices.
Sustainability as a Business-Model Transformation
https://hbr.org/2025/05/sustainability-as-a-business-model-transformation
Many global companies have made public commitments to sustainability targets. Fulfilling these commitments will require firms to transform their business models and organizational architecture
The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets
https://www.theverge.com/tech/639126/india-frankenstein-laptops
India’s repair culture gives new life to dead tech.
A new way to bring personal items to mixed reality
https://news.mit.edu/2025/interecon-brings-personal-items-to-mixed-reality-0407
“InteRecon” enables users to capture items in a mobile app and reconstruct their interactive features in mixed reality. The tool could assist in education, medical environments, museums, and more.
How to Intentionally Design Your Org, From Square’s Former CEO
https://review.firstround.com/how-to-design-your-org/
Thinks about organizational structure like a distributed system.
How tech giants like Netflix built resilient systems with chaos engineering
Chaos engineering – a proactive approach that allows companies to intentionally introduce failures or disruption into their system in a controlled manner to understand how the system behaves under stress.
