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 – 28 October 2025
The scenario prompt for today is strategy hibernation. Quietly preserving internal capacities while reducing external exposure. Hushing. The reframing or rewording of the opportunities. Climate change, DEI, ESG, talent gaps, and rapid technology developments are not going to go away. All are a “when” and not a “if”. You cannot afford to lose to capabilities. You need to remain future fit.
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
- Social franchise
- GenAI, quantum and spacial computing
- Thin-film transistors
- Turning seaweed into heart tissue
- Spider bots
- Printable bio-glass
- Mind merge
- AR and VR integration in retail
- Screens ‘visually indistinguishable from reality’
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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 rise of social franchise
https://andjelicaaa.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-social-franchise
Social franchise doesn’t exist, but it should.
Three Emerging Technologies Leaders Must Watch in 2026
https://www.burrus.com/emerging-technologies-2026-business/
GenAI, quantum and spacial computing
New organic thin-film tunnel transistors for wearable and other small electronics
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-thin-tunnel-transistors-wearable-small.html
Thin-film transistors (TFTs), which are comprised of thin layers of conducting, semiconducting and insulating materials, have proved to be particularly promising for large-area flexible and wearable electronics, while also enabling the creation of thinner displays and advanced sensors.
Scientists Turn Supermarket Seaweed Into Heart Tissue
https://scienceblog.com/scientists-turn-supermarket-seaweed-into-heart-tissue/
Tissue scaffolds are critical tools in preclinical drug testing, allowing researchers to study how human cells respond to treatments without immediately involving human subjects.
Spider-Inspired Robot Crawls the Gut to Aid Disease Detection and Treatment
https://www.azorobotics.com/News.aspx?newsID=16215
A tiny, spider-inspired robot that climbs through the digestive tract could change how doctors detect and treat gastrointestinal diseases.
Researchers Develop 3D Printable Bio-Glass for Bone Replacement Applications
The new bio-glass combines oppositely charged silica particles with calcium and phosphate ions, which are known to promote bone cell formation.
One Mind, Two Bodies: Man With Brain Implant Controls Another Person’s Hand—and Feels What She Feels
If the implant can control muscles in one person, can that person also use it to control someone else’s muscles?
Is This a Moment for Strategic Hibernation?
https://hbr.org/2025/11/is-this-a-moment-for-strategic-hibernation
Strategic hibernation allows organizations to sustain critical capacities, avoid mission drift, and reemerge stronger when sentiment and regulations change.
Augmented reality and virtual reality: Reimagining try-before-you-buy
With AR and VR integration, consumers can have more confidence when buying online and retailers can increase shopping opportunities and cut expenses.
Retina e-paper promises screens ‘visually indistinguishable from reality’
https://newatlas.com/materials/retina-e-paper/
In what could be an industry shifting breakthrough, researchers have created a screen about the size of a human pupil with a resolution that breaks through the limits of pixels. The invention could radically change virtual reality and other applications.
