Scenario prompts are the first step in strategy development. Ask yourself a number of questions:
- Does it resonate? Why?
- It is relevant?
- Is it a hard or soft trend?
- Opportunity or threat?
- Will it impact now or in the future?
- Is the impact internal or external?
- Who should know?
- Does it link with other trends?
- What are the possible scenarios? Think extreme.
- How should we respond?
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Todays topics to consider are warp speed, transhumanism, climate tech trends, high variance management, Iron Man (JARVIS), organs on demand, inhalabzle sensors, flexible organic solar cells, the Asimov 3 rules and 40 reasons to be optimistic about 2024.
My scenario prompt for today: Consider morphological freedom as a concept
By Meddling With Spacetime Dimensions, We Could Finally Reach Warp Speed
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a42593019/traveling-faster-than-speed-of-light/?
A faster-than-light “observer” would take general relativity to new quantum places.
We should embrace transhumanism; our survival could depend on it
Embrace morphological freedom, a transhumanist concept that insists that everyone should have the ability to improve their bodies how they wish, so long as it doesn’t hurt others.
Five climate tech trends to look out for in 2024
https://energydigital.com/articles/five-climate-tech-trends-to-look-out-for-in-2024
Clean energy, carbon accounting, water, decentralised energy and micro grids.
High Variance Management
https://blog.sbensu.com/posts/high-variance-management/
When developing new products the reduce variance approach is the opposite of what you need Instead, we need High Variance Management.
Jarvis is coming: the future of AI-human collaboration
https://www.diamandis.com/blog/scaling-abundance-series-33?
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman predicts that every profession will have an AI copilot by 2028.
Pigs With Human Brain Cells and Biological Chips: How Lab-Grown Hybrid Life Forms Are Bamboozling Scientific Ethics
In September, scientists announced they had successfully grown “humanized” kidneys inside pig embryos.
MIT scientists create inhalable sensors to detect early lung cancer
https://interestingengineering.com/science/mit-inhalable-sensors-lung-cancer?
Inhalable sensors.
Experts craft world’s top flexible solar cell for energy generation
Researchers state it to be the “world’s highest-performing stretchable organic solar cell.”
Google wrote a ‘Robot Constitution’ to make sure its new AI droids won’t kill us
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/4/24025535/google-ai-robot-constitution-autort-deepmind-three-laws
Safety guardrails inspired by Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics
40 reasons to be optimistic about 2024, from science to culture
https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/reasons-optimistic-2024-science-culture-2827073?
From health breakthroughs to wildlife success stories, and literary festivals to wellbeing schemes
