I help organisations become future-fit. #Mindcandy scenario prompts are part of that. They are designed to stretch your imagination, sharpen situational awareness, and spark opportunity thinking. Find out more here.
Scenario Prompts – 22 October 2025
The scenario prompt for today is innovation signalling. You need to move beyond innovation. Collectively, an organisation needs to share purpose, vision, values, passion, positioning as a shared strategy narrative. Combine that with situational awareness and relevant scenario prompts and you will become future fit. Collectively!
The other prompts to expand your lens today are:
- You are the upgrade, a summary of 25 books about AI, the conclusion is augmented natural intelligence as the way forward
- Programming biology
- The future of AI
- Photoelectrochemical solar panels
- Embryo models
- Artificial neurons that can control living cells
- Origami bots
- Self-healing material that mimics human skin
You are the upgrade
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
The next revolution in biology isn’t reading life’s code — it’s writing it
https://bigthink.com/life/the-next-revolution-in-biology-isnt-reading-lifes-code-its-writing-it/
A new generation of scientists wants to take the next step: not just reading the code of life, but writing it. That’s the mission behind the Human Genome Project-write (HGP-write) and SynHG, the Synthetic Human Genome Initiative.
What the future of AI means for business
https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/gartner-2026-tech-predictions-implications
Testing, critical thinking, multi agent, procurement, decision making, programmable money, governance, productivity, and fragmentation.
Scientists Finally Corrected a Fatal Flaw in an Unlimited Power Source. An Energy Revolution Is Coming.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a68886703/pec-flow-cell-solar-power/
Photoelectrochemical solar panels could become a significant source of sustainable power in the future.
The astonishing embryo models of Jacob Hanna
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/21/1125523/jacob-hanna-israel-synthetic-embryo-models/
Scientists are creating the beginnings of bodies without sperm or eggs. How far should they be allowed to go?
In a World Obsessed With Innovation, What If Most of It Isn’t Real?
https://www.persuasion.community/p/in-a-world-obsessed-with-innovation
Everyone knows innovation is the ultimate corporate virtue. For years, it wasn’t innovation itself but the signaling of it that I performed. Innovation signaling was my job.
‘Unprecedented’ Artificial Neurons Are Part Biological, Part Electrical—Work More Like the Real Thing
Bacterial nanowires and memristors combine in artificial neurons that can control living cells.
Magnetic ‘muscles’ turn origami into crawling robots that move and heal from within
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/origami-robots-magnetic-muscles-ncstate
A new 3D-printing breakthrough gives origami robots magnetic “muscles,” letting them crawl and deliver medicine inside the body.
A self-healing material mimics human skin
https://springwise.com/responsible-connectivity/self-healing-electronic-material-mimics-human-skin/
This innovative electronic material could transform the next generation of health wearables and soft robotics
