#Mindcandy are scenario prompts prompts to help companies formulate strategy.
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How to use the prompts
Use these prompts to explore their relevance, assess opportunities and threats, and analyse timelines and impacts on your organisation. Consider multiple possible futures across 1, 3, 5, and 10 years time horizons.
Scenario prompts 16 April 2025
Todays prompts are the human aura, long-term economic trends, generative human intelligence (you are the upgrade), patient-specific organ models, talking to dolphins (and soon other animals), AI doing your shopping, and s.ocial media replaces search engines.
Shopping in ‘God Mode’ with AI, consider the impact on your marketing and sales.
The long history of the human aura
https://bigthink.com/the-past/the-long-history-of-the-human-aura/
From religious iconography to modern mysticism, the human aura has been a subject of fascination across centuries and cultures.
We asked 5 economists about long-term economic trends. Here’s what they said
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/04/long-term-economic-trends-growth-economy/
Geopolitics, demographics and AI.
You are a Generative Human Intelligence
https://jasoncmcbride.medium.com/you-are-a-generative-human-intelligence-519befd9e029
Don’t let technology convince you to give away your humanity. You are the upgrade. See https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/. Augmented natural intelligence is the only way forward.
Meteora3D develops 3D printing process for patient-specific organ models in real time
The 3D models are already being used in interventional procedures, for example to select suitable stents or to plan complex vascular interventions.
Google’s groundbreaking tech lets humans converse with dolphins in real-time
https://interestingengineering.com/science/new-ai-to-talk-with-dolphins
DolphinGemma – an AI LLM system – is helping humans interact with dolphins.
Shopping in ‘God Mode’ with AI
https://a16z.com/ai-shopping-online/
Forget walking into a store — or even searching online. Your AI-powered personal shopper already knows what you’re looking for.
Social media replaces search engines as key shopping, discovery tool
About 48% of Gen Z and 51% of millennials now use social media to find restaurant suggestions, recipes, and product info.
