I help organisations increase their value by making them future-fit. #Mindcandy scenario prompts are part of that. They are designed to stretch your imagination, sharpen situational awareness, and spark opportunity thinking. Find out more here.
Scenario Prompt – 26 September 2025
This weekend, consider how these signals could reshape your business:
- Abundant, low-cost energy
- Insect-sized spy bots
- Invisible customer experiences
- Synthetic life
- Behaviour transplants (are behaviours genetic?)
- AI accelerating programmable biology
- Quantum chips manufactured at scale
These aren’t science fiction—they’re emerging realities. The question is: How do you train your leadership, your strategy, and your culture to respond?
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.
China’s solar-powered system produces 300 mL hydrogen per hour from air moisture
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/chinas-solar-powered-system-produces-hydrogen
The system combines atmospheric water harvesting and electrolysis to generate hydrogen even in low-humidity conditions.
DARPA Going Hard on Insect-Sized Spy Robots
https://futurism.com/future-society/darpa-robot-insects
The many machines currently in development by the US military include sea-based microdrones, cockroach-style surveillance bots, and even cyborg insects.
The Future of Tech Is Here: Five Tech Trends Shaping 2025
https://solutionsreview.com/the-future-of-tech-is-here-five-tech-trends-shaping-2025/
Quantum computing, agentic AI systems, robotics, synthetic humans, and invisible experiences.
Future-Oriented Leadership
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/future-oriented-leadership
Purpose, values, and humility. Compassion is a competitive advantage. Also read https://www.ronimmink.com/more-than-50-reasons-why-compassion-makes-a-lot-of-business-sense/
AI-Designed Viruses Are Replicating and Killing Bacteria
https://singularityhub.com/2025/09/25/ai-designed-viruses-are-replicating-and-killing-bacteria/
Synthetic life…….
World’s first ‘behavior transplant’ between species achieved
https://newatlas.com/biology/unknown-behavior-gene-transfer/
In a breakthrough study, scientists have transferred a courtship behavior from one species to another, triggering the recipient to perform this completely foreign act as if it was its own.
3D-print record: 14-ingredient meal cooked by lasers sets new culinary milestone
https://interestingengineering.com/science/3d-print-record-14-ingredient-meal
Engineering every bite
The AI Utopia Doesn’t Exist Without Bio
https://www.nfx.com/post/ai-and-bio-future
When the biggest AI leaders get on stage and talk about how AI will change the world… they’re really talking about biology.
Key Bottleneck Broken: Quantum Computer Chips Clear Major Manufacturing Hurdle
A startup has proven its silicon quantum chips can be manufactured at scale without losing precision.
