Scenario prompts help in ongoing strategy development and develop your change muscle. Ask yourself a number of questions:
- Does it resonate? Why?
- Is it 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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Today´s topics to consider are natural capital accounting, planning for the future, tech trends (the usual suspects), giving physical form to AI (robots and cyborgs), cockroaches (biomimicry) and drug smuggling drones.
My scenario prompt for today: check your current business model against natural capital cost accounting.
Meet the economist who wants the field to account for nature
What is the true value of a honeybee? A mountain stream? A mangrove tree? Alternative economic modelling as a hard trend?
24 Tech predictions for 2024
https://www.thepourquoipas.com/post/24-technology-predictions-for-2024?
Two reasons why you should keep reading. Firstly… because predictions are fun! Secondly, because the knowledge gained through planning for the future is crucial to the selection of appropriate actions as events unfold. Predictions can act as catalysts to steer the conversation in the right direction.
10 Strategic Technological Trends Shaping the Future
Explainable AI, zero trust, biotech, immersive, human augmentation, cloud, neuromorphic computing, biometrics, circular and quantum computing.
The Year AI Gets a Better Body
https://thegeneralist.substack.com/p/the-year-ai-gets-a-better-body?
The search for innovative form factors for the technology may be one of the most important stories of 2024.
How Severed Cockroach Legs Could Help Us ‘Fully Rebuild’ Human Bodies
A lab experiment pairs the inexactness of biology with the precision of engineering in the pursuit of true bionic limbs.
The Case for Cyborgs
https://every.to/p/the-case-for-cyborgs?
Augmenting human intelligence beyond AI will take us much further than creating something new
Cheap and They Don’t Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvma7/drug-trafficking-smugglers-using-drones?
Drones are on the rise in the drug world with smugglers using them to shift product across borders, into prisons – and soon to a street near you.
