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 6 March 2023. If you want to develop your own scenario prompts, go here.
Ethics and innovation, housing, a supermodel robot cafe, ocean investors, the most innovative companies in 2023, brain implants, soft robots with e-skin, human augmentation, foodtech, mind reading AI, smart manufacturing, the timber revolution and doom loops.
The future is about mindset. PMA or doom loops?
5 questions to help you assess the ethics of future innovations.
https://bigthink.com/the-learning-curve/ethics-of-future-innovations/
It seems like every day we’re bombarded with new inventions and innovations poised to transform the world. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/technology-vs-humanity-coming-clash-man-machine/
The housing theory of everything
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-everything?
The construction industry is ripe for disruption. Cost, innovation, inequality, productivity, health and climate change.
World’s First Supermodel Robot Cafe To Open In Dubai In 2023
https://food.ndtv.com/news/worlds-first-supermodel-robot-cafe-to-open-in-dubai-in-2023-3622568?
Donna Cyber-café will have supermodel robots, with the ability to make conversation with customers, remember their names and detect emotions as well.
To fix the climate, these 10 investors are betting the house on the ocean
Our planet is 70% ocean, so the urgency of facing and solving climate change can only be properly addressed if we include the ocean in the equation
The world’s most innovative companies of 2023
https://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/list?
Fast company’s annual ranking of the world’s most innovative companies covers 54 industries and sectors, from advertising to workplace.
Brain implant startup backed by Bezos and Gates is testing mind-controlled computing on humans
The Synchron Switch is implanted through the blood vessels to allow people with no or very limited physical mobility to operate technology.
Soft robots with smart e-skin could assist with surgical procedures
https://www.inceptivemind.com/soft-robots-smart-e-skin-one-day-assist-surgical-procedures/29805/?
Many robotic tasks require knowledge of the exact 3D robot geometry. However, this remains extremely challenging in soft robotics.
Human augmentation with robotic body parts is at hand, say scientists
Extra parts, from a thumb to an arm, could be designed to help boost our capabilities
A food tech revolution is set to radically change what’s on the menu, if you’re game
Lab grown, insects and culture.
Researchers watch video images people are seeing, decoded from their fMRI brain scans in near-real-time
Mind reading computers/AI? Follow Kurzweil.
AI is creating a smart manufacturing industry, BIC shows how
https://innovationorigins.com/en/ai-is-creating-a-smart-manufacturing-industry-bic-shows-how/?
The impact of AI on manufacturing.
Timber revolution
https://www.dezeen.com/2023/03/01/the-dawn-of-the-timber-revolution/?
Engineered wood…
World risks descending into a climate ‘doom loop’, warn thinktanks
Read https://www.ronimmink.com/collapse-is-an-option/
