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 8 March 2023.
Predicting the future, kelp bricks, innovation, vocal cords on a chip, wearables, the trust thermocline, force multipliers, circular construction, a podcast your should follow, hype cycles, agrovoltaics, e-bandages, plasticosis and mini-brains and organoid intelligence (again).
A few new words. OI, agrovoltaics and plasticosis. What does that tell you, and will it impact your business?
When Predicting the Future, Remember, You’re Probably Wrong
The most consequential objective a force can pursue is maintaining the capacity for adaptation.
A kelp-based brick system for marine construction
A startup is working to make bricks out of seaweed to create floating structures that sequester carbon
Why is innovation so hard
https://www.ronimmink.com/why-is-innovation-so-hard/
A perspective
Chinese team creates vocal cords on a chip
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-chinese-team-vocal-cords-chip.html?
Researchers designed a wafer-like tool one centimeter square that can easily be affixed to the throat and allow barely audible sounds, or even whispers, to be converted into speech at normal volume.
A wearable device that records single-neuron activity while humans are walking
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-wearable-device-single-neuron-humans.html?
Researchers have recently developed the Neuro-stack, a new wearable technology that can record the activity of single neurons in the brain.
Slowly, Then Suddenly: How Products Fail
https://every.to/p/breaching-the-trust-thermocline
The trust thermocline represents the point at which a consumer decides that the mental cost of staying with a product is outweighed by their desire to abandon it.
3 force multipliers for digital transformation
https://www.cio.com/article/463606/3-force-multipliers-for-digital-transformation.html
Optimised LCNC, data science and governance and AIops.
Green Alliance publishes blueprint for demolishing construction industry emissions
40% in 12 years is too slow…
The feedback loop
https://www.su.org/podcasts/the-feedback-loop?
Highly recommended podcast by the Singularity University. Will blow your mind.
The uses and abuses of hype
https://www.economist.com/business/2023/03/02/the-uses-and-abuses-of-hype?
A hype cycle is not an adoption cycle. Read
Agrivoltaics can provide food and energy for growing world population
New word “agrivoltaics”. New words are predictors of trends
E-Bandages Lightly Zap—and Heal—Wounds
https://spectrum.ieee.org/electroceuticals-e-bandages?
The small, flexible, stretchable, wireless, battery-free device could help electrotherapy deal with chronic ailments
“Plasticosis:” New disease in birds highlights dangers of microplastics
https://newatlas.com/biology/plasticosis-new-disease-microplastics-birds/?
Scientists have described a new disease called plasticosis. While the disease has so far only been identified in the digestive tracts of seabirds, the scale of the problem suggests it could be widespread in other species and different parts of the body.
Biocomputing With Mini-Brains as Processors Could Be More Powerful Than Silicon-Based AI
Mini-brains are already building blocks for a plug-and-play biocomputing system that readily connects with biological brain
