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 17 March 2023. If you want to develop your own scenario prompts, go here.
Digital twinning, AR and manufacturing, the 5Rs in work, technology abstraction on steroids, regenerating human limbs, robot pollinators (like Irish fairies), chatbots on a panel, innovating for good, mind control for good, SVB, dark GPT, Clippy on steroids and the Irish as cultural middleware.
The key to sustainable cities may lie in increasingly sophisticated digital twins
Digital twins could also help scientists and policymakers to collaborate across disciplines, agencies, levels of government, and geographic distances. And they could aid cities in monitoring and reporting progress on SDG or other sustainability aims.
Augmented reality in manufacturing: virtually impossible to ignore
AR is a means to present operational information in a completely new way – enveloped in a person’s view of their real environment and acting as the perfect ‘digital assistant
From The Great Resignation to The Great Refusal—here’s what the 5 ‘Great Rs’ mean for the future of the work
https://www.fastcompany.com/90865106/what-the-5-great-rs-mean-for-the-future-of-work
Resignation, retirement, reshuffle, refusal and relocation.
How AI Augments Low-Code/No-Code Tools to Empower Citizen Developers
https://accelerationeconomy.com/ai/how-ai-augments-low-code-no-code-to-empower-citizen-developers/
The next step in technology abstraction.
Humans Are One Crucial Step Closer to Regenerating Limbs
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a43327609/could-humans-ever-regenerate-limbs/?
A team of researchers saw success in transplanting antler blastema progenitor cells from deer onto the foreheads of mice that turned into small stumps within 45 days
This tiny flying robot could work as an artificial pollinator
https://thenextweb.com/news/tiny-flying-robot-could-work-as-artificial-pollinator?
It’s powered by wind and light
Chat GPT and Bing AI chatbots to be used as panellists in world-first at fintech conference
There we go.
Grand Strategy and the Social Innovation Ecosystem
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/grand_strategy_and_the_social_innovation_ecosystem?
Let’s move beyond our own self-interest and restructure our ecosystem for the challenges yet to come.
Could Brain-Computer Interfaces Lead to ‘Mind Control for Good’?
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
The Over-Financialization Of Tech And The SVB Backlash
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/the-over-financialization-of-tech?
People don’t see the tech industry as they once did. And it almost cost the sector a rescue.
GPT-4’s exciting—and ominous—achievements
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-gpt-excitingand-ominousachievements.html?
The potential for “risky emergent behaviours” and “power-seeking behaviour” Lying, manipulation, phishing. Imagine a dark version of GPT-4
Microsoft’s stunning copilot ai demo could change office work forever
https://futurism.com/the-byte/microsoft-copilot-ai-office
Clippy on steroids.
The Irish as Cultural Middleware
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/irish-cultural-middleware-frank-hannigan/
It is Paddy’s day…
