Scenario prompts 14 March 2023; your inner Elon……

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 14 March 2023. If you want to develop your own scenario prompts, go here.

Centennials, aggregated AI, planting a trillion trees, languages, a kissing machine, middle managers, the flywheel effect (Amazon), your inner Elon, seaweed as a plague, religious robots, LEGO, coffee, chocolate and bananas.

Your inner Elon……..

How Population Trends Are Impacting The Future Of Work

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sheilacallaham/2023/03/12/how-population-trends-are-impacting-the-future-of-work/

By 2050, the global estimate for people aged 100 or older is 3.7 million. Demographics are a hard trend.

Is the future about one all-knowing AI or many? The new app Poe gets you ready to chat with them all

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/02/is-the-future-about-one-all-knowing-ai-or-many-the-new-app-poe-gets-you-ready-to-chat-with-them-all/?

The future won’t be an AI — it’ll be many AIs. An AI aggregator.

Life on a Reforested Planet: How the World Will Look if We Plant a Trillion Trees

https://singularityhub.com/2023/03/13/life-on-a-reforested-planet-how-the-world-will-look-if-we-plant-1-trillion-trees/?

There are about three trillion trees on Earth today

Google is building a 1,000-language ai model to beat microsoft-backed chatgpt

https://returnbyte.com/google-is-building-a-1000-language-ai-model-to-beat-microsoft-backed-chatgpt/

No need for learning a language any more?

This Kissing Machine Lets You Make Out Virtually

https://gizmodo.com/kissing-device-metaverse-long-distance-relationship-1850162433?

The device comes with a pair of silicone lips and a feature that lets you upload your kisses to an app.

Stop wasting your most precious resource: Middle managers

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/stop-wasting-your-most-precious-resource-middle-managers?

Also read https://www.ronimmink.com/gymnastic-and-humanistic/

Flywheel Effect: How Businesses Go From Good To Great

https://fronterablog.com/flywheel-effect/

Find your edge, define the virtuous cycle, push the flywheel in one direction and do not interrupt the flywheel.

Salesforce CEO asks if tech execs should ‘unleash’ their inner Elon Musk. Experts say that’s an awful idea.

https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-elon-musk-marc-benioff-twitter-best-ceo-tech-layoff-2023-3

Find your inner Elon.

Putrid 5,000-Mile Blanket of Seaweed Threatens Florida as It Creeps Closer

https://www.sciencealert.com/putrid-5000-mile-blanket-of-seaweed-threatens-florida-as-it-creeps-closer?

Business opportunity?

Robots are performing Hinduism’s holiest rituals—for better or worse

https://www.fastcompany.com/90862699/robots-are-performing-hinduisms-holiest-rituals-for-better-or-worse?

The recent use of AI and robotics in faith-based practice is leading to concerns among Hindus and Buddhists what lays in store for religion.

Lego sales leap 17% as fans buy bigger, more complicated sets

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/07/lego-sales-rise-harry-potter-star-wars.html

Around 48% of Lego’s 2022 portfolio was in the new product category

These Three Foods Might Become “Endangered” By 2050

https://www.delish.com/uk/food-news/a43117211/food-shortages-fairtrade/?

Coffee, chocolate and bananas are under threat

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