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Scenario prompts 4 September 2024
Today’s prompts are AR shopping, tiny robots, new words, nostalgia, the biocrust, cockroaches, neuroarchitecture, Amazon, programmable blood cells, and an opportunity to pre-order my book about books about AI.
AR Shopping: Top Trends and Apps for the Future (2024)
https://www.shopify.com/enterprise/blog/augmented-reality-ecommerce-shopping
Apps, virtual try on, hardware, showrooms, mirroring and gamification.
Billions of Tiny Robots in Your Brain Could Give Your Mind a Superboost
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a62008687/robot-brain-super-intelligence/
The instant access to information at the speed of thought could multiply humanity’s intelligence a millionfold.
How new words arise in social media
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-words-social-media.html
New words are always a predictor of trends.
Bidirectional Nostalgia
https://www.8ball.report/p/bidirectional-nostalgia
The nostalgia cycle is very predictable in terms of orientation
The dirt on biocrusts: Why scientists are working to save Earth’s living skin
Also called biocrust, cryptobiotic soil is a community of tiny, dirt-dwelling organisms that form a distinct crust on the top of soil in arid landscapes.
A microbot inspired by cockroaches
Weighing just 200 mg without its battery, equivalent to the weight of around 40 hairs, the robot draws inspiration from the cockroach’s exceptional speed and agility
How the buildings you occupy might be affecting your brain
https://psyche.co/ideas/how-the-buildings-you-occupy-might-be-affecting-your-brain
Cutting-edge research in the field of neuroarchitecture is revealing the public health implications of building design
11 Books on Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon
https://www.practicalecommerce.com/11-books-on-jeff-bezos-and-the-rise-of-amazon
My favourite is Working Backwards. See https://www.ronimmink.com/haphazard-or-deliberate-leadership/
World’s 1st lab-grown blood stem cells could aid in bone marrow transplants
https://interestingengineering.com/science/worlds-1st-lab-grown-blood-stem-cells
Programmable blood cells.
A book about books about AI
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
So far, taking the perspective from 22 books/authors covering intelligence (there are many forms), work, synthetic biology, transhumanism, economics, spiritualism, digital transformation, data, etc. When you go through the books again, you start to wonder if we are asking the right questions. Pre-order here to stay in the loop.
