Scenario prompts 7 April; have a great Easter

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 7 April 2023. If you want to develop your own scenario prompts, go here. 

Immersive collaboration, asynchronous culture, virtual banking, decoding brain activity, longevity and your biome, beetle skins, organoids, embodied cognition and future food tech.

Enjoy Easter.

What Is Immersive Collaboration? Immersion for Teams

https://www.uctoday.com/collaboration/what-is-immersive-collaboration-immersion-for-teams/

Immersive collaboration tools promise to streamline workflows, and improve the way teams work together, while cutting down on the need for extensive travel and physical real estate

The Secret to an In Sync Startup? Ditch Your Meetings and Try an Asynchronous Culture

https://review.firstround.com/the-secret-to-an-in-sync-startup-ditch-your-meetings-and-try-an-asynchronous-culture?

The three pillars include: no micromanagement, documenting everything, and treating hiring as a segmentation exercise.

OCBC steps into metaverse, first Singapore bank to offer virtual banking experience

https://www.straitstimes.com/business/ocbc-steps-into-metaverse-first-singapore-bank-to-offer-virtual-banking-experience?

The metaverse, gaming and banking.

This Researcher Knew What Song People Were Listening to Based on Their Brain Activity

https://singularityhub.com/2023/04/06/this-researcher-knew-what-song-people-were-listening-to-based-on-their-brain-activity/?

Decoding brain activity.

Longevity of centenarians is reflected by the gut microbiome with youth-associated signatures

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-023-00389-y

Microbiome is an opportunity hotspot

This Iridescent Coating Could Cool Your House Without Air-Conditioning

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/this-iridescent-coating-could-cool-your-house-without-air-conditioning/?

Tiny nanostructures on beetle’s exoskeleton made of cellulose capture light and send it bouncing around whilst separating it into different wavelengths. When the same nanostructures are pasted to the outside of a house, they can keep it 7.2°F cooler during the day and 20°F cooler during the night.

Are We Near The End Of Animal Testing?

https://www.inverse.com/science/end-of-animal-testing-organoids?

Mini “organs” could spare lab rats and help scientists develop more effective drugs. Organoids as a hotspot.

THIS animal can learn—despite not having a brain

https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/04/06/this-animal-can-learn-despite-not-having-a-brain/?

Embodied cognition. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/beyond-human-intelligence/

Trendwatching at Future Food-Tech

Mushrooms, algae, edible coatings, precision fermentation, fibres, cold plasma, molecular farming, etc.

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