Scenario prompts 23 November 2023; what is the purpose of your organisation?

Scenario prompts are the first step to strategy development. Topics to consider are wearable robots, economic models, purpose, voice detection, medical breakthroughs, crystals, artificial empathy, self healing concrete, your biome and wi-fi for neurons.

What is the purpose of your company?

A wearable robot that assists people with walking

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-wearable-robot-people.html?

Researchers introduced a new wearable robot designed to specifically assist humans who have difficulties walking due to aging, muscle weakness, surgeries or specific medical conditions.

Economic models buckle under strain of climate reality

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/economic-models-buckle-under-strain-climate-reality-2023-11-22/

Record temperatures, droughts, floods and wildfires this year have caused billions of dollars of damage, even before emissions take warming beyond the 2015 Paris Agreement cap of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.

The Value of Corporate Purpose

https://hbr.org/2023/11/the-value-of-corporate-purpose?

The value of an organizational purpose is to help coordinate activity among stakeholders in this complex system. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/purpose-and-passion-are-the-new-not-to-copy/

No more needles: AI detects diabetes from your voice

https://www.springwise.com/innovation/health-wellbeing/a-new-method-for-detecting-diabetes-early/?

Researchers have been able to detect the onset of diabetes without testing blood sugar levels, by using AI to analyse voice recordings.

6 Medical Breakthroughs Remaking Modern Health

https://techonomy.com/6-medical-breakthroughs-remaking-modern-health/?

From Alzheimer’s discoveries to animal organ transplants, new breakthroughs are improving and extending lives.

First experimental evidence of hopfions in crystals: Research opens up new dimension for future technology

https://phys.org/news/2023-11-experimental-evidence-hopfions-crystals-dimension.html?

Magnetic skyrmions and hopfions are topological structures which make them promising objects for spintronic applications.

How artificial empathy will change work and life, according to a Stanford professor

https://www.fastcompany.com/90984653/how-artificial-empathy-will-impact-workers-and-customers-according-to-a-stanford-professor?

Psychopaths use superficial charm to manipulate others.

Inactive bacteria powers self-healing concrete to repair cracks

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/bacteria-powers-self-healing-cracks?

The authors made comparisons to human tissue’s inherent self-healing characteristics, noting that BioFibers imitate this concept by employing bacteria to generate damage-responsive living self-healing concrete.

In the Gut’s ‘Second Brain,’ Key Agents of Health Emerge

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-the-guts-second-brain-key-agents-of-health-emerge-20231121?

The microbiome is an opportunity hotspot.

Wi-Fi for neurons: first map of wireless nerve signals unveiled in worms

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03619-w?

Studies find a densely connected network of neurons that communicate over long distances, rather than across synapses.

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