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Relevance, digital transformation, 2030, industrial policy, building god, fungus as building material, circular construction, China and Africa, longevity clinics, BMW in the metaverse, humanoid robots and the intuition economy.
How relevant/circular is your business model?
5 Keys to Ensure Professional Relevance
https://rishad.substack.com/p/5-keys-to-ensure-professional-relevance?
Business models, organisational structure and ecosystems.
Digital Transformation: What Innovative Companies Do Differently
https://ceoworld.biz/2023/07/15/digital-transformation-what-innovative-companies-do-differently/
The paradigm-changing digital transformation approach. Follow AgilePoint.
Could this be a glimpse into life in the 2030s
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/the-next-normal/2030s?
Space vacation, flying cars, everything smart, drones, immersive, health tech, mixed building, personalised and shared economy
The pushback against industrial policy has begun
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-pushback-against-industrial-policy?
The first main purpose of industrial policy is decarbonization.
Silicon Valley’s Quest to Build God and Control Humanity
TESCERAL: Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Longtermism.
Scientists use fungus to create eco-friendly construction materials
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/fungus-to-create-eco-friendly-construction-tools?
A team have used the knitted molds as a flexible framework or ‘formwork’, creating a composite called ‘mycocrete’ which is stronger and more versatile in terms of shape and form.
Coming full circle: wood and the circular economy
https://sciencex.com/wire-news/450776744/coming-full-circle-wood-and-the-circular-economy.html
The construction sector is responsible for over 35% of the EU’s total waste generation and about 50% of all extracted resources. If you have a solution, join https://www.circular-accelerator.com/
Why a growing number of Chinese investors are looking to Africa’s tech space
If you’re thinking about rapid evolution, where do you get inspiration from? Not Europe or the USA?
The Longevity Clinic Will See You Now—for $100,000
https://www.wsj.com/articles/longevity-clinics-aging-living-longer-2b98e773?
The clinics cater to a growing number of people obsessed with fighting aging
Ride A Virtual Motorcycle In BMW’s New VR Metaverse
https://vrscout.com/news/ride-a-virtual-motorcycle-in-bmws-new-vr-metaverse/?
According to BMW, MetaRide will eventually grow to include various other products.
Humanoid robot GR-1 to aid aging population in China
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/humanoid-robot-gr-1-to-aid-aging-population-in-china?
The National Health Commission documented that the number of people aged 60 and over would rise from 280 million to more than 400 million by 2035.
The knowledge economy is dead. Long live the intuition economy
https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-knowledge-economy-is-dead-long-live-the-intuition-economy/?
With knowledge commoditized and democratized, we will enter an “intuition economy” in which human creativity will be valued more than ever.
