Scenario prompts are the first step to strategy development. Topics to consider are probiotic bandages, mind reading tech, authenticity, AI and material science, the future of manufacturing, trends in AI (including quantum AI), wave devouring, XPrize, modular insect farms, controlling cell behaviour, grief tech and ghost bots and an offer to get your own primordial sound.
Use the strategic box to ensure authenticity.
Living bandages for chronic wounds
https://www.springwise.com/innovation/health-wellbeing/living-bandages-for-chronic-wounds/?
Researchers are aiming to cure chronic wound infections with probiotic dressings
Meta AI develops a non-invasive method to decode speech from brain activity
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-meta-ai-non-invasive-method-decode.html?
Instead of using intracranial electrodes, they employ magneto-encephalography. This is an imaging technique relying on a non-invasive device that can take more than a thousand snapshots of brain activity per second.
Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year Reflects Growing Concerns Over AI’s Ability to Deceive
Apply the strategic box. Mission, vision, passion, values, resources and positioning.
Google’s AI Just Made 800 Years Worth of Discoveries. What It Found Could Revolutionize Technology
https://themessenger.com/tech/googles-ai-discoveries-revolutionize-technology?
Millions of entirely new materials that could help build next-gen AI computing chips, batteries, renewable energy and more.
Open Technology Ecosystems Are The Future Of Manufacturing
Develop an Infrastructure That Seamlessly Connects the Old With the New. Consider AgilePoint.
Navigating the AI revolution: key trends to watch in 2024
https://www.raconteur.net/technology/opinion-ai-trends-2024
Augmented working, multi-modal generative AIs, legislation, IP and copyright and Quantum AI.
‘Wave devouring’ tech inspired by whales could propel ships towards net zero
It is essentially a flapping foil system installed at the bottom of a ship’s hull that helps propel it along. Inspired by the tail fin of a whale, the system harnesses the kinetic energy of the waves to achieve propulsion without fuel.
New XPrize Will Award $101 Million To Innovators Who Can Reverse Aging
It aim is to reward research teams that can develop therapies which measurably reverse age-related degradation across three domains in otherwise healthy adults aged 65-80: cognition, immune system and muscle function.
Modular insect farms for small-scale food producers
UK startup Flybox is using insects to convert organic waste into protein. The company provides modular insect farms that help farmers create their own insect protein factories on-site.
A new way to see the activity inside a living cell
https://news.mit.edu/2023/new-method-fluorescent-labels-living-cell-1128?
Using fluorescent labels that switch on and off, MIT engineers can study how molecules in a cell interact to control the cell’s behavior.
Grief tech startups want to help you text from beyond the grave
https://thehustle.co/grief-tech-startups-want-to-help-you-text-from-beyond-the-grave/?
Ghostbots…
The Buddhist Definition of Mindfulness
https://thetaoist.online/the-buddhist-definition-of-mindfulness-defd1ae4732a
Do you know the sound of the universe when you were born. Great for meditation. See https://www.ronimmink.com/product/primordial-sound-mantra/
