Mind candy are prompts to help you to keep up to date, develop strategic responses to trends and train your change muscle, making you more resilient and agile for the future. If you need help with developing these prompts, you can book a free appointment here. If you want me to speak at your event, contact me at ron@ronimmink.com
How to use the prompts
Become a trend watcher yourself. Use these prompts to explore their relevance, assess opportunities and threats, and analyse timelines and impacts on your organisation. Consider multiple possible futures across varying time horizons—1, 3, 5, and 10 years.
Scenario prompts 11 February 2025
Todays prompts are exponential organisations, smart textile, Chinese startups, phantom sense, Tech Trends 2025, connecting with nature, aquaprenuership, and transporting electricity through air by ultrasonic waves.
Study the 6 tigers.
Comparing Exponential Organizations (ExO) with Neuroscience: A Strategic Framework
The ExO model resonates with the accelerating pace of technological advancement in neuroscience.
Smart Textile to Sense Light, Pressure, Smell, and Even Taste – Successfully Developed Next-gen Fibers That Will Change the Future of Wearable Technologies
A multifunctional sensor based on semiconductor fibers that emulates the five human senses.
Four Chinese AI startups to watch beyond DeepSeek
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/04/1110942/four-chinese-ai-startups-deepseek/
An elite group of companies known as the “Six Tigers”—Stepfun, Zhipu, Minimax, Moonshot, 01.AI, and Baichuan—are generally considered to be at the forefront of China’s AI sector.
What is phantom sense? the unique VR sensory experience explained
Many VR users are chasing a particular hallucination known as phantom sense.
Tech Trends 2025
https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/tech-trends.html
Tech Trends 2025 reveals the extent to which AI is being woven into the fabric of our lives. We’ll eventually think of AI in the same way that we think of HTTP or electricity.
Wearable sensors translate nature’s invisible signals into haptic feedback for humans
A new wearable system translates invisible signals from natural ecosystems into a sensory experience for humans, offering a novel way to understand and monitor our natural surroundings
‘Aquapreneurs’ are turning the tide on water pollution
https://theprint.in/environment/aquapreneurs-are-turning-the-tide-on-water-pollution/2485392/
80% of wastewater is untreated globally, leading to 485,000 annual deaths and $260 billion in economic losses. Every $1 invested in wastewater infrastructure offers an estimated economic gain of $4.3.
Making an invisible electric wire: Guiding electricity with sound
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-invisible-electric-wire-electricity.html
A recent study published in Science Advances uncovers a way of transporting electricity through air by ultrasonic waves
