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Scenario prompts 19 Augustus 2024
Today’s prompts are tiny batteries, designer proteins, a digital of Mozart, self healing glass, ambient computing, bio concrete, Handelsbanken, navigating the AI revolution, ARPA-H, super conducting and an opportunity to order my book about books about AI.
Study biotech. Read “The Genesis machine”.
Engineers Design Tiny Batteries For Powering Cell-Sized Robots
https://scienceblog.com/546946/engineers-design-tiny-batteries-for-powering-cell-sized-robots/
The new battery, which is 0.1 millimeters long and 0.002 millimeters thick — roughly the thickness of a human hair — can capture oxygen from air and use it to oxidize zinc, creating a current of up to 1 volt.
‘Startling Advance’ in Designer Proteins Opens a World of Possibility for Biotech
Using AI, researchers designed proteins that reliably transform themselves in the presence of a molecular switch—dubbed an “effector.”
Mozart and the digital twin for music
https://thenextweb.com/news/mozart-and-siemens-acoustic-digital-twin
Although Mozart has no living descendants, his music still has countless inheritors. The latest in the lineage — born just this summer — is a digital twin.
Breakthrough New Glass Self-Heals From Gamma Radiation
https://www.sciencealert.com/breakthrough-new-glass-self-heals-from-gamma-radiation
The glass, or a future form of it, could one day be used as a durable, reversible radiation sensor for extreme environments.
AI and AR can supercharge ‘ambient computing’
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3485725/ai-and-ar-can-supercharge-ambient-computing.html
The concept and related ideas are also referred to as “ubiquitous computing” and “invisible computing.
Researchers create mind-blowing ‘bio-concrete’ using bacteria cultures: ‘Huge potential that can be unlocked through biologizing technology’
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/cyanobacteria-concrete-construction-algae/
Cyanobacteria are algae-like cultures capable of photosynthesis, utilizing light, moisture, and temperature to create stromatolite structures from limestone. The bacteria have been making these formations for billions of years, according to the U.S. National Park Service
Handelsbanken: A Budgetless Banking Pioneer
https://www.corporate-rebels.com/blog/handelsbanken-a-budgetless-banking-pioneer
Handelsbanken’s unique culture, often referred to as ‘The Handelsbanken Way,’ embodies several core principles that continue to guide its operations. Excellence, decentralisation, customer first and transparency.
How to think about AI: navigating the AI revolution
https://www.diamandis.com/blog/how-to-think-about-ai
“Imagine waking up tomorrow to find a new continent that has emerged overnight. Not a landmass — a digital realm populated by 100 billion AI agents, and a billion robots. All ready to go. Welcome to AI Atlantis: a seemingly far-off utopia which is actually a vivid reality
This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/16/1096808/arpa-h-jean-hebert-wants-to-replace-your-brain/
Jean Hébert, a new hire with the US Advanced Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), is expected to lead a major new initiative around “functional brain tissue replacement,” the idea of adding youthful tissue to people’s brains.
Superconductor Feature Seen Operating at Temperatures Once Thought Impossible
A crucial feature of superconductivity has just been observed at much higher temperatures than scientists had thought possible.
A book about books about AI
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
So far, taking the perspective from 22 books/authors covering intelligence (there are many forms), work, synthetic biology, transhumanism, economics, spiritualism, digital transformation, data, etc. When you go through the books again, you start to wonder if we are asking the right questions. Pre-order to stay in the loop.
