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Scenario prompts 21 Augustus 2024
Today’s prompts are corporate sustainability, nanoparticles that reconfigure on command, immortality, 125 years from now, 12 trends that will shape the future of business, digital disruption, Eric Schmidt, brain pacemakers, sharkskins, Navy Seals, Black Myth: Wukong and my book about books about AI (you should read up).
Study the Navy Seals. Read “The Navy SEAL Art of war”
Corporate sustainability is maturing, not disappearing
https://www.fastcompany.com/91173661/corporate-sustainability-is-maturing-not-disappearing
Reckoning, regulating, retooling and regenerating.
Smart materials: Researchers develop nanoparticles that reconfigure on command
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/researchers-nanoparticles-smart-reconfigure-microscopy
The approach could develop smart materials and coatings capable of transitioning between optical, mechanical, and electronic properties.
Sea Anemone’s Stem Cells May Hold Key To Immortality
https://scienceblog.com/546973/sea-anemones-stem-cells-may-hold-key-to-immortality/
Researchers have identified potential multipotent stem cells in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis, a creature known for its remarkable regenerative abilities and potential immortality
Happy birthday, baby! What the future holds for those born today
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/15/1096178/125-years-predictions-babies-digital-agents/
A look 125 years into the future.
12 Trends That Will Define the Next Era of Business
https://www.shrm.org/enterprise-solutions/insights/future-business-trends
SHRM analyzed over 7,000 pages of expert predictions to find 12 trends that will shape the future of business for its new Tomorrowist flagship
Riding the Wave of Digital Disruption: Five Trends That Will Define the Future of Business
Hyper-personalisation, data, platforms, substitution and eco systems.
Eric Schmidt’s AI prophecy: The next two years will shock you
https://www.exponentialview.co/p/eric-schmidts-ai-prophecy
Unprecedented disruption
A Personalized Brain Pacemaker for Parkinson’s
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/health/parkinsons-brain-pacemaker.html
Combine this with brain interfaces.
Lufthansa is using artificial sharkskin to streamline airplanes
Copying a trick from the animal kingdom can help cut aircraft emissions.
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast: Navy Seals’ efficiency secret
https://www.navyseal.com/slow-is-smooth-smooth-is-fast/
It’s a mantra deeply ingrained in Navy SEALs operations. A counterintuitive concept that flips our usual understanding of speed and efficiency on its head.
Black Myth: Wukong hits PS5s and PCs in Chinese industry ‘milestone’
Gaming as a propaganda instrument?
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.
