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Scenario prompts 6 November 2024
Use the prompts to question things such as relevance, opportunity vs threat, if vs when, timelines, impact and responses. Consider multiple futures.
Today’s prompts are shopping trends, content vs data, a robot snake, thermoelectric, industry 4.0, nuclear fusion, Death Star, bio-printing, supersolids, and an European DARPA.
Combine hydrogel semiconductor with plant-animal hybrid cells. Think in extremes and and set a time horizon.
Here’s how and why consumers are shopping
https://chainstoreage.com/heres-how-and-why-consumers-are-shopping
Some really interesting stats.
Why You Need People To Manage the Meaning of AI Content
https://contentmarketinginstitute.com/articles/team-manage-ai-content/
Generative AI is blurring the lines between content and data.
RoBoa: 328-feet long robot snake safely navigates hazardous, tight spaces
RoBoa features steering capabilities and data-collecting sensors, built with soft materials for safe human interaction.
How wasted heat from our bodies could generate green energy
https://thenextweb.com/news/how-wasted-heat-from-our-bodies-could-generate-green-energy
Thermoelectric materials made from wood could be the solution
Navigating Industry 4.0 Innovation Trends in the Connected Factory: How to Drive Transformation in Manufacturing
https://www.burrus.com/2024/11/navigating-innovation-in-manufacturing-and-industry/
How can your organization leverage connected factory technologies to anticipate market changes and build long-term competitiveness?
The Radical Promise of Nuclear Fusion
https://every.to/p/the-radical-promise-of-nuclear-fusion-166c729a-ba0b-4e7f-b51d-1cd0abf4f943
After years hidden under top-secret status, fusion research is finally flourishing.
China develops new satellite-wrecking Death Star-like microwave weapon
https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-new-satellite-wrecking-microwave-weapon
Similar in concept to the super laser from the Death Star battle station of Star Wars fame, the new Chinese weapon has allegedly completed experimental military trials.
Bioprinter rapidly mimics tissues from brain to bone
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/bioprinter-rapidly-mimics-tissues-from-brain-to-bone
Researchers a have developed a new 3D bioprinting technique that can rapidly create accurate analogues of virtually any human tissue.
Physicists Stir a Supersolid For First Time, Proving Its Bizarre Dual Nature
It is matter that has the properties of both a solid and a superfluid, in which a fraction of the atoms flow friction-free through the lattice – a regular arrangement of points or objects – of a rigid crystal structure
Do we need a European DARPA to cope with technological challenges in Europe?
Implementing this model would require a seismic shift in how European agencies operate. Creating a new agency would be ineffective without ensuring that all principles underlying the success of DARPA are implemented in Europe.
