Scenario prompts help in ongoing strategy development and develop your change muscle. Ask yourself a number of questions:
- Does it resonate? Why?
- Is it relevant?
- Is it a hard or soft trend?
- Opportunity or threat?
- Will it impact now or in the future?
- Is the impact internal or external?
- Who should know?
- Does it link with other trends?
- What are the possible scenarios? Think extreme.
- How should we respond?
If you require assistance, please leave your contact details here. I will reach out to set up a complimentary Zoom call, promising you, at the very least, an inspiring and thought-provoking conversation.
This weekends´ topics to consider are biometric privacy, the bio-economy, brain implants, technology trends, science fiction, CEO priorities, predicting the future, smart binoculars, skin and Azheem Azars outlook for 2024.
My scenario prompt for the weekend is to read “Imaginable”. See https://www.ronimmink.com/create-your-own-deja-vu-of-the-future/.
The Battle for Biometric Privacy
https://www.wired.com/story/the-battle-for-biometric-privacy/?
In 2024, increased adoption of biometric surveillance systems, such as the use of AI-powered facial recognition in public places and access to government services, will spur biometric identity theft and anti-surveillance innovations.
Recent Developments in and the Future of the Bioeconomy in 2024
The New Tech Trinity: Artificial Intelligence, BioTech, Quantum Tech.
This Graphene-Based Brain Implant Can Peer Deep Into the Brain From Its Surface
Finding ways to reduce the invasiveness of brain implants could greatly expand their potential applications.
Technovision 2024: trends for business decision makers
Generative AI, quantum technology, semiconductors, batteries and spaceTech.
Sci-fi books are taking off again
https://www.ft.com/content/8ec390a8-739c-46d4-9dac-dc0bcf0e0285
Every CEO should read SF.
What matters most? Eight CEO priorities for 2024
AI, technology, transformation, competition, geopolitics, growth, management
What makes a good prophecy?
https://timharford.com/2024/01/what-makes-a-good-prophecy/
For a forecast to be useful, it is neither necessary nor sufficient that it be accurate. It is about the conversation and the thinking.
These smart binoculars can identify birds and animals for you
A new pair of AI-supported binoculars can identify over 9,000 species of birds and other wildlife
Getting Under the Skin
https://www.growbyginkgo.com/2024/01/09/getting-under-the-skin/?
Amid an insulin crisis, one project aims to engineer microscopic insulin pumps out of a skin bacterium.
My outlook for 2024
https://www.exponentialview.co/p/my-outlook-for-2024?
We’re around ten years into the exponential transition. Azheem Azars themes. Energy, AI, computing fabric, decentralisation, geopolitics, and humanoids.
