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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 22 April 2025
Todays prompts are electricity from raindrops, AI and music, language models, stretchable batteries, bio engineered teeth, replacing all human workers everywhere, retail, drones on Mount Everest, living building materials, and implants.
Replacing all human workers everywhere?
Scientists make electricity from falling rainwater in radical new energy experiment
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/scientists-make-electricity-from-falling-rainwater
The plug flow system converted over 10 percent of the energy from the water descending through the tubes into electricity.
AI is coming for music, too
New diffusion AI models that make songs from scratch are complicating our definitions of authorship and human creativity.
To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language
We insist that large language models repeatedly translate their mathematical processes into words. There may be a better way.
Scientists made a stretchable lithium battery you can bend, cut, or stab
A team of scientists built a flexible, non-toxic, jelly-like battery that could survive bending, twisting, and even cutting with a razor.
Lab-grown teeth could be the future of dentistry
https://www.popsci.com/science/lab-grown-human-teeth/
A stem cell research breakthrough paves the way for bioengineered chompers.
Famed AI researcher launches controversial startup to replace all human workers everywhere
The startup wants to provide the data, evaluations, and digital environments to make worker automation of any job possible.
Science Fiction Or Shopping Reality? Responding To Retail Trend
The Line Between Browsing And Buying Continues To Blur
Drones can deliver supplies on Mount Everest this year, and it may change climbing forever
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/20/travel/nepal-mount-everest-drone-technology-intl-hnk/index.html
Drone use “is part of the evolution of climbing (and not only climbing).
This Living Building Material Forms Bone-Like Structures and Could One Day Repair Itself
Scientists combined fungus and bacteria into a “living material” that stays alive for up to a month.
Beyond Cochlear Implants: A Flexible Brainstem Device Restores Hearing Without Side Effects
A new soft auditory brainstem implant (ABI) developed by researchers at EPFL may revolutionize hearing restoration for people who can’t benefit from cochlear implants.
