#Mindcandy are scenario prompts to help companies formulate strategy. Also see https://www.ronimmink.com/strategy-development/.
Scenario prompts 7 May 2025
The scenario prompt for today is how AI will fundamentally change marketing. Selling to robots. When AI is doing the buying, do you think that AI will have brand loyalty and if your product or service is fully transparent and comparable, what will happen?
I would focus on your five star reviews. How will this impact your marketing?
The other prompts are leadership at the edges, the industrial metaverse, humanoids, collapse as an option, wireless internal drug delivery, teleportation, low-cost robotic touch, and cyborg insects.
Selling To Robots: The Marketing Revolution That Will Make Or Break Your Business
For marketers, this might seem to turn one of the fundamental principles of digital marketing on its head
To Innovate, Leaders Need To Empower The Edges
https://digitaltonto.com/2025/to-innovate-leaders-need-to-empower-the-edges/
Change originates at the edges. Leaders, by definition, are at the center with limited access to those edges and limited resources to get there. If you want your organization to be ready for change you don’t just need better ideas—you need better changemakers who can help those ideas gain traction, build momentum and scale to impact.
The Dream of the Metaverse Is Dying. Manufacturing Is Keeping It Alive
https://www.wired.com/story/the-metaverse-is-here-and-its-industrial/
Forget Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of VR meetings; the industrial metaverse bridges digital and physical worlds in a way that’s actually useful.
Humanoid counterparts
https://modemworks.com/research/humanoid-counterparts/
Humanoid robots are no longer confined to science fiction—they’re entering our factories, offices, and homes
The biggest taboo in our culture
https://www.ocai-online.com/blog/the-biggest-taboo-in-our-culture
Collapse is an option. Also read https://www.ronimmink.com/collapse-is-an-option/
China’s smart ‘band-aid’ for organs delivers medicines wirelessly on demand
https://interestingengineering.com/health/chinese-researchers-develop-organ-band-aid
Chinese researchers have developed a wireless, paper-thin patch that attaches to an organ to create a highway for drug delivery
A Quantum Breakthrough Just Proved Teleportation Is Real—And Unlocked the Most Powerful Internet Yet
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a64670356/quantum-teleportation-internet-breakthrough/
A team managed to teleport a particle through around 18 miles of public internet infrastructure.
Breakthrough sensor material brings human-like touch to robots at low cost
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/low-cost-sensing-for-robotic-skin-technology
Researchers have made a breakthrough that could pave the way for affordable, highly sensitive robotic touch
Exploring cyborg cicada bioacoustic modulations for insect-based communication
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-exploring-cyborg-cicada-bioacoustic-modulations.html
Insect-computer hybrid systems have drawn research attention for their mobility, durability, and energy efficiency. Insect biobots (cyborg insects) have been considered for applications ranging from disaster response to agriculture and surveillance.
