Situational awareness is a key component of strategy development. If any of the scenario prompts are relevant, come as a surprise, and you have not considered how to respond, you should sign up for my four-step strategy development programme. See https://www.ronimmink.com/strategy-development/
The topics are AI everywhere, managing chaos, brain caps as an interface, smart contact lenses, the allocation economy, chatbots beating humans in debating, flexible screens, genetic augmentation and transhumanism.
Read “The Remnants”
Is this AI? See if you can spot the technology in your everyday life.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2024/what-is-ai/
So what is AI, really? To cut through the hype, we asked 16 experts to judge 10 everyday technologies
Leading a Company That Can Thrive in a Chaotic World
https://hbr.org/2024/04/leading-a-company-that-can-thrive-in-a-chaotic-world?
To thrive in this chaotic new world, organizations need leaders with inner strength, character, and a moral compass. By continually adapting and learning, they’ll enable their organizations to navigate these ever-turbulent waters. See https://www.ronimmink.com/strategy-development/
New brain cap lets people play video games with their minds
https://futurism.com/neoscope/cap-play-video-games-with-mind
Researchers have created a wearable brain-computer interface (BCI) that allows users to play video games just by using their minds.
Blink to Generate Power for Smart Contact Lenses
https://spectrum.ieee.org/power-smart-contact-lenses?
A dual-mode power pack harvests energy from light and from tears
The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy
We’ll go from makers to managers, from doing the work to learning how to allocate resources—choosing which work to be done, deciding whether work is good enough, and editing it when it’s not.
AI chatbots beat humans at persuading their opponents in debates
When people were challenged to debate contentious topics with a human or GPT-4, they were more likely to be won over by the artificial intelligence.
Rollable OLED’s Moment Is Near
https://spectrum.ieee.org/rollable-smartphone
Experts think flexible phones “could come up quick”
Scientists splice material from creature that can survive outer space into human cells
https://futurism.com/neoscope/scientists-splice-tardigrade-human-cells
Genetic augmentation….. Transhumanism is getting closer and closer. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/transhumanism-as-a-lens-to-the-future/
