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
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
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.
