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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 10 April 2025
Todays prompts are wood, transparency, Asia-Pacific megatrends, uploading your brain, holograms, skin sensors, magnetic microrobot swarms, interim CEOs, and fish bladders.
you uploaded your brain… now what?
Self-densified super-strong wood aims to replace steel
Researchers have developed a novel self-densification strategy to create super-strong wood that could replace metals and alloys.
Can AI make corporations’ climate conduct more transparent?
https://www.raconteur.net/climate-crisis/public-access-ai-climate-change
Researchers have created a GenAI tool trained on the largest available repository of fossil fuel industry documents. They hope it will boost climate transparency and help hold corporations accountable for environmental indifference
Asia-Pacific Megatrends Report 2025-2035: Impacts of Business Model Transformation, Economic and Political Shifts, and Social Evolution
The framework identifies dynamic shifts that will push businesses to adopt new business models such as circular value chains, value chain compression, direct-to-consumer (D2C), and asset-light models
So You Uploaded Your Brain… Now What?
https://ai.gopubby.com/so-you-uploaded-your-brain-now-what-9baf3ec4d701
As you stand face-to-face with your digital twin, the philosophical questions multiply faster than you can process them.Who are you now? Two conscious entities sharing one identity? Or something entirely different?
Touch The Untouchable With New Grab-And-Go Hologram Technology
https://scienceblog.com/565130/touch-the-untouchable-with-new-grab-and-go-hologram-technology
Science fiction becomes reality as researchers have developed the world’s first interactive holograms that users can physically touch, grab, and manipulate with their bare hands.
Your skin is breathing. This new wearable device can measure it.
First wearable device to gauge health by sensing gases coming from, going into skin
Magnetic microrobot swarm enables 3D imaging of vascular networks
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-04-magnetic-microrobot-swarm-enables-3d.html
The approach devised by the researchers relies on swarms of active agents. These active agents are essentially magnetic particles, which can be controlled using external magnetic fields, reaching areas that cannot be accessed by passive agents.
What’s behind the rise in interim CEOs
https://www.fastcompany.com/91308670/modern-ceo-april-7-interim-ceo
High turnover in the C-suite and the changing needs of business are leading to more “temps” in the top job.
Fish swim bladders could be useful in a treatment for heart failure
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-fish-bladders-treatment-heart-failure.html
The fish swim bladder is an organ that aids fish in floating in water and is composed of collagen, glycosaminoglycans, and elastin, closely resembling parts of the human heart.
