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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 1, 3, 5, and 10 years time horizons.
Scenario prompts 28 March 2025
Todays prompts are quantum teleportation, haptic technology, betavoltaic batteries, Buurtzorg, AI as a blackbox, the computational power of living cells, holodecks, and birth control.
The computational power of living cells
Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over Internet For The First Time
https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-teleportation-achieved-over-internet-for-the-first-time
A quantum state of light was successfully teleported through more than 30 kilometers (around 18 miles) of fiber optic cable amid a torrent of internet traffic – a feat of engineering once considered impossible.
Feeling the future: New wearable tech simulates realistic touch
While sitting on the skin, the compact, lightweight, wireless device applies force in any direction to generate a variety of sensations, including vibrations, stretching, pressure, sliding and twisting.
The Secret to Unlimited Energy Is in a Coin-Sized Battery—And China Is Already Producing It
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a64286191/nuclear-battery-china/
The atomic energy of betavoltaic batteries can power a variety of devices, from aerospace and robots to your future smartphone, for up to a century without recharging.
10 Questions About Buurtzorg’s Self-Management Model – Answered
https://www.corporate-rebels.com/blog/10-questions-about-buurtzorgs-self-management-model-answered
Buurtzorg is proof that self-management isn’t a utopian fantasy—it’s just smart business. The hard part? Letting go of control.
What Anthropic Researchers Found After Reading Claude’s ‘Mind’ Surprised Them
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Quantum effects in life: Cells compute information billion times faster than we thought
https://interestingengineering.com/science/quantum-mechanics-in-living-systems
Living beings have enormous computational power
Inside The Walkable VR Holodeck That Sells Real Estate
https://www.uploadvr.com/four-seasons-private-residences-austin-vr-holodeck/
As prices come down for a holodeck like this one and sales teams see the potential, might new homebuyers be able to customize their purchases, and ultimately their communities, in ways which weren’t feasible in the 20th century?
New Birth Control Shot Transforms Into a Long-Lasting Implant—No Clinic Required
The technology uses tiny crystals to achieve both long-term effectiveness and the convenience of injections.
