Scenario prompts 9 May 2023; where are you on the pendulum of change?

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 9 May 2023. Scenario prompts are the first step of strategy development. If you want to improve your own strategic planning abilities, we have developed a simple four-step programme. Go here https://www.ronimmink.com/perception-pioneer/

Voice cloning, portable nuclear, global trade trends, carbon-busting, moss, time crystals, dumb phones, restaurant subscriptions, robot whisperers and robotic spider arms.

Dumb phones are a typical example of action=reaction. Where are you on the pendulum of change? Take a position. https://www.ronimmink.com/the-pendulum-of-change/

A.I. Week: The future is here and it’s cloning your voice

https://www.wxyz.com/news/a-i-week-the-future-is-here-and-its-using-your-voice

What could they do with your voice?

Small portable nuclear reactors could power up to 1,000 households, here’s how they work

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/meltdown-proof-portable-nuclear-reactors?

Wearable nuclear?

Key Trends Changing The Global Trade Winds

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesfinancecouncil/2023/05/08/key-trends-changing-the-global-trade-winds/?

Nearshoring, friendshoring, rising transatlantic tensions, eu regulations, geopolitical developments and technology

9 carbon-busting startups from the MIT Sustainability Summit

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/9-carbon-busting-startups-mit-sustainability-summit

From seed stage to Series A, here are nine startups offering innovative solutions aimed at demystifying carbon markets.

‘We Were Gobsmacked’: Giant Study Reveals Why Moss Is Vital For The Planet

https://www.sciencealert.com/we-were-gobsmacked-giant-study-reveals-why-moss-is-vital-for-the-planet?

Sampling mosses from over a hundred sites across eight different ecosystems, Eldridge and colleagues estimated populations of the plant cover a staggering 9.4 million square kilometers in the types of environments surveyed

The realization of a continuous time crystal based on a photonic metamaterial

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-crystal-based-photonic-metamaterial.html?

A time crystal is a new state of matter in which the particles are in continuous oscillatory motion. Time crystals break time-translation symmetry. 

Dumbphones being bought by Gen Z, to reduce distractions

https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/04/dumb-phones/?

Nokia is selling tens of thousands of its dumbphones each month – with Gen Z leading the charge toward a simpler, less distracting device.

Restaurants want you to sign up for memberships

https://futureparty.com/Restaurant-Memberships-Subscriptions-Customer-Loyalty/

An interesting model. Data, intimacy, revenue, branding, etc.

Horse whisperers can help engineers build robots with more capabilities

https://www.inceptivemind.com/horse-whisperers-help-engineers-build-robots-more-capabilities/30571/

There are no fundamental guiding principles for how to build an effective working relationship between robots and humans.

Spider-like robotic AI arms can be attached to and controlled by humans

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/ai-arms-controlled-by-humans?

Half a century since the concept of a cyborg was introduced, Jizai-bodies (digital cyborgs), enabled by the spread of wearable robotics, are the focus of much research in recent times.

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