Scenario prompts 19 September 2023; watch “The Dark Crystal”

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Topics to consider digital transformation, AI personal assistants, strategy and circular, 3D printing, molecular engineering, brain organoids, gaming and AI, Coca Cola, TIME 100 in AI and time crystals (which reminds me of The Dark Crystal movie).

Watch “The Dark Crystal”.

Why the Digital Transformation Needs a Reset

https://www.pymnts.com/connectedeconomy/2023/why-the-digital-transformation-needs-a-reboot/

It’s time for a new data-driven framework for turning digital transformation into a successful outcome for every business and the customers they serve. Look up AgilePoint (codeless enterprise architecture).

AI personal assistants are coming. That could change everything in our personal and work lives

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-personal-virtual-assistant-work-home-chatgpt-deepmind-2023-9?

It will be a research assistant, but it will also be a coach and companion. It will also do your buying, which will fundamentally change marketing and branding.

Strategy in a Circular World

https://www.bain.com/insights/strategy-in-a-circular-world/

To move beyond experimentation, leaders are setting bolder ambitions and linking circular strategies to business objectives. Apply here https://www.circular-accelerator.com/

A modern digital light processing technology to 3D print microfluidic chips

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-modern-digital-technology-3d-microfluidic.html?

3D bioprinting has attracted increasing attention to innovatively design and manufacture customized structures at the microscale.

Hydrogel uses sunlight to make water from hot air

https://www.futurity.org/hydrogel-water-hot-air-sunlight-297495/?

A new molecularly engineered hydrogel that can create clean water using just the energy from sunlight.

Brain organoids could reveal origins of autism

https://www.futurity.org/autism-organoids-2975142-2/?

The scientists altered one of 36 different genes associated with autism in each of the individual cells and studied the resulting effects.

Generative AI will account for half of game development in 5 to 10 years | Bain

https://venturebeat.com/games/generative-ai-will-account-for-half-of-game-development-in-5-to-10-years-bain/?

Executives have to recognize that generative AI requires more than just technological transformation and necessitates the development of new work processes and enterprise architecture strategies.

Coco-Cola creates first-ever drink using AI technology

https://www.inceptivemind.com/coca-cola-y3000-zero-sugar-first-ever-ai-created-drink/34110/

The AI helped the company develop flavor profiles and design the product’s outside packaging – the logo and text script. 

Time 100 in AI

https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/?

TIME’s most knowledgeable editors and reporters spent months fielding recommendations from dozens of sources, to put together hundreds of nominations that we whittled down to the group you see today

In a Mind-Bending First, Scientists Paired Two Time Crystals Together

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a40359762/paired-time-crystals-quantum-computing/?

Hard to understand and even harder to study, time crystals offer a tantalizing view of quantum computing in the future. Always reminds me of the Dark Crystal movie.

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