Scenario prompts 14 march 2023; (re)read “The Shallows”

If you want to become more anticipatory, buy yourself the time to respond, develop your change muscle, and increase the quality of your strategy development, here are the scenario prompts for 13 March 2023.

Semiautomated social networks, the metaverse, automating CEOs, shaping opinions, superfoods of the future (including cockroach milk), Zappos, quantum computing, Sam Altman, the attention economy, plasmatic paint, an AI 6000 faster than Deepmind, Amazon and Walmart and agrigenomics.

Attention seems to be a theme. Time to (re)read “The Shallows”.

The semiautomated social network is coming

https://www.theverge.com/23632371/social-network-future-ai-automated-chatbot-posts-linkedin

Automated attention seeking. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/pancake-minds-scatter-brains-and-the-slow-flow-as-the-antidote/

13 predictions for the metaverse and Web3

https://venturebeat.com/virtual/13-predictions-for-the-metaverse-and-web3/?

Digital identity, blockchain, ubiquitous, AI, niche communities, avatars and new job titles (CGZO and CWMO)

Should we automate the CEO?

https://thehustle.co/should-we-automate-the-ceo/ 

Last August, NetDragon Websoft — a Hong Kong-based online gaming firm with $2.1B in annual revenue — appointed an AI CEO to helm its flagship subsidiary.

Don’t Try To Shape Opinions, Shape Networks

https://digitaltonto.com/2023/dont-try-to-shape-opinions-shape-networks/

Decades of scientific research suggests that the best indicator of what we think and do is what the people around us think and do

Superfoods of the Future, From Cockroach Milk to DNA-Personalized Meals

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/superfoods-of-the-future-from-cockroach-milk-to-dna-personalized-meals/?

Meal in a pill, golden rice, redesigning farm animals, spirulina, algaculture

When Traditional Management Creeps Back In: What is Happening at Zappos?

https://www.corporate-rebels.com/blog/zappos-2?

Read https://www.ronimmink.com/delivering-happiness/

Two Oddball Ideas for a Megaqubit Quantum Computer

https://spectrum.ieee.org/qubit-connectivity

Cyrogenics, terahertz waves and quantum wells 

Sam Altman invested $180 million into a company trying to delay death

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/08/1069523/sam-altman-investment-180-million-retro-biosciences-longevity-death/

Young blood (vampire) and cellular reprogramming.

Emissions

https://www.profgalloway.com/emissions/

There’s something worse. Converting attention into profit.

Bio-inspired “plasmonic paint” could make regular paint a thing of the past

https://newatlas.com/materials/butterfly-wing-plasmonic-paint?

We’ve previously heard about technologies that mimic the manner in which the wings of certain butterflies display such vibrant colours.

An AI Learned to Play Atari 6,000 Times Faster by Reading the Instructions

https://singularityhub.com/2023/03/10/an-ai-learned-to-play-atari-6000-times-faster-by-reading-the-instructions/?

Teaching an AI to play a challenging Atari video game thousands of times faster than a state-of-the-art model developed by DeepMind.

Amazon and Walmart Duke It Out Over $808 Billion Healthcare Industry

https://www.pymnts.com/news/retail/2023/amazon-and-walmart-duke-it-out-over-808-billion-healthcare-industry/

Healthcare is just one of the many fronts on which Walmart and Amazon are competing for more of the consumer’s spend

Sustainably feeding the world with genomics-driven agriculture

https://www.labnews.co.uk/article/2093008/sustainably-feeding-the-world-with-genomics-driven-agriculture?

The potential of agrigenomics is starting to be realised.

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WHY REINVENT THE WHEEL AND WHY NOT LEARN FROM THE BEST BUSINESS THINKERS? AND WHY NOT USE THAT AS A PLATFORM TO MAKE BETTER BUSINESS DECISIONS? ALONE OR AS A TEAM.

Sense making; morality, humanity, leadership and slow flow. A book about the 14 books about the impact and implications of technology on business and humanity.

Ron Immink

I help companies by developing an inspiring and clear future perspective, which creates better business models, higher productivity, more profit and a higher valuation. Best-selling author, speaker, writer.

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