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Scenario prompt 24 July 2025
The prompt for today is regrowing your own teeth. Is this the end of dentists? At a minimum it will force dentists to reinvent themselves. That is why you need to remain situationally aware. The canary is already in the coal mine.
The other scenario prompts are spy cockroaches, genomics and farming, gene editing mosquitos, nose inspired filtering, strategy champions, scenario planning, robot muscles, cyborg battle suits, and you are the upgrade.
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How regrowing your own teeth could replace dentures and implants
The end of dentists?
Spy cockroaches and AI robots: Germany plots the future of warfare
Some of the ideas under development feel akin to science fiction – like Swarm Biotactics’ cyborg cockroaches that are equipped with specialised miniature backpacks that enable real-time data collection via cameras for example. Electrical stimuli should allow humans to control the insects’ movements remotely.
Neither conventional nor GMO. What’s the place of ‘new genomic techniques’ in organic agriculture?
Methods that tweak genes without transferring new material into crops sit in regulatory limbo in the EU. Could legalizing their use could transform organic agriculture?
Stealth Genetic Switch in Mosquitoes Halts Malaria Spread
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/stealth-genetic-switch-in-mosquitoes-halts-malaria-spread
Mosquitoes kill more people each year than any other animal. In 2023, the blood-sucking insects infected a reported 263 million people with malaria, leading to nearly 600,000 deaths, 80% of which were children.
Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse
Meta is nasty. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/meta-a-fish-rots-from-the-head/
Inspired By Your Nose, This Filter Clings Tightly To Dust
https://scienceblog.com/inspired-by-your-nose-this-filter-clings-tightly-to-dust/
Designed to mimic the sticky efficiency of mucus-coated nasal hairs, the team’s particle-removing oil-coated (PRO) filter dramatically improves air filtration by trapping particles with strong capillary adhesion—rather than the weak forces used in conventional filters
How Strategy Champions win
What do such Strategy Champions have in common? They excel at designing bold strategies—and are even better at mobilizing their execution.
Scenario Planning Amid Radical Uncertainty
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/scenario-planning-how-to/
At chaotic times like these, leaders must fight paralysis and bad decisions — by carefully building an expansive scenario map.
EPFL Researchers Develop Programmable Lattice Structure for Robotics Using Single Foam Material
Robot muscles…..
China’s cyborg battle suit lets soldiers toss drones, see through walls, run on bots
https://interestingengineering.com/military/cyborg-suit-lets-soldiers-toss-drones
The suit includes a compact system for launching drones, allowing soldiers to send out and control small flying robots from the field.
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.
