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Scenario prompts 22 October 2024
Use the prompts to question things such as relevance, opportunity vs threat, if vs when, timelines, impact and responses. Consider multiple futures.
Today’s prompts are circular construction, life trends, Gerd Leonhard, Protopia, replacing data centres with plant DNA, Gartner top 10 strategic technology trends for 2025, sensor edge computing, screening embryos for IQ and hacking vacuum robot.
Study the Protopia principles.
Circular construction could be a huge boon for climate—and jobs
In a new study, the researchers tallied up the substantial economic and ecological benefits of taking buildings apart piece by piece rather than bulldozing them.
Accenture Life Trends 2025 Predicts New Dynamics of Trust Will Reshape Relationships Between People and Businesses
Digital technology, parenting, the impatience economy, work and social rewinding.
CONNECTED-2024 Conference: Synchronized Vision of Humanity’s Future
https://astanatimes.com/2024/10/connected-2024-conference-synchronized-vision-of-humanitys-future/
Had the pleasure of speaking at the Connected 2024 Conference in 2024. Follow Gerd Leonhard. Also see https://www.ronimmink.com/technology-vs-humanity-coming-clash-man-machine/
Protopia futures
https://medium.com/protopia-futures/protopia-futures-framework-f3c2a5d09a1e
At the same conference I had the pleasure of watching Monika Bielskyte speak. Another person to follow.
Could we replace data centers with … plant DNA?
https://www.ted.com/talks/cliff_kapono_and_keolu_fox_could_we_replace_data_centers_with_plant_dna
Biomedical researcher Keolu Fox and professional surfer and scientist Cliff Kapono believe that Indigenous knowledge combined with the science of genetics may offer such a solution: using the DNA of plant cells (like those found in sugar cane) as mini data warehouses.
Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2025
https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/top-technology-trends-2025
AI imperatives, new frontiers of computing, and human-machine synergy.
Stretchable transistors used in wearable devices enable in-sensor edge computing
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-10-stretchable-transistors-wearable-devices-enable.html
Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are neuromorphic transistors made of carbon-based materials that combine both electronic and ionic charge carrier
US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/18/us-startup-charging-couples-to-screen-embryos-for-iq
Experts say the development represents an ethical minefield.
Robot vacuums in US transmit racial slurs after hackers take control
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/hackers-robot-vacuums-racial-slurs-us-cities
Everything that can be hacked, will be hacked. Time to re-read https://www.ronimmink.com/cyber-security-future-crimes-and-the-dark-side-of-technology/
