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Scenario Prompts – 30 October 2025
The scenario prompt for today is the article about the healthcare trends. AI, virtual hospitals, CRISPR, quantum, robotics, and synthetic data will not only apply to healthcare, but to most organisations. Take your pick and assess how it will impact on your business model.
The other prompts to expand your lens today are:
- You are the upgrade, a summary of 25 books about AI, the conclusion is augmented natural intelligence as the way forward
- Battery-free metamaterial implant
- Skin-inspired organic bioelectronic devices
- Pig kidneys
- AI creating living cells from scratch
- Artificial muscles
- Biomimicry
- Quantum Ayurveda
- Blockchain-verified carbon-removal credits
- Quantum sensors
- Youtube
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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.
World’s first self-powered spinal implant transmits healing data from inside the body
https://interestingengineering.com/health/battery-free-spinal-implant-real-time-tracking
The battery-free metamaterial implant generates its own power and tracks healing progress, offering a new era of connected, radiation-free recovery.
Skin-inspired organic biosensors can reliably track health-related signals in real-time
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-skin-biosensors-reliably-track-health.html
The skin-inspired organic bioelectronic devices can seamlessly interface with the human body, providing an ideal platform for biomarker monitoring
Man Has Pig Kidney Removed After Living With It for a Record 9 Months
https://www.wired.com/story/man-has-pig-kidney-removed-after-living-with-it-for-a-record-9-months/
With the demand for human donor organs desperately outstripping supply, scientists are working to see if genetically edited pig organs can bridge the gap.
Scientists Are On the Verge of Creating Living Cells From Scratch—It Could Transform Our Understanding of Life
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a69147686/synthetic-life/
Could AI be used to develop living organisms? And should it?
Artificial muscles use ultrasound-activated microbubbles to move
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-artificial-muscles-ultrasound-microbubbles.html
Researchers have developed artificial muscles that contain microbubbles and can be controlled with ultrasound. In the future, these muscles could be deployed in technical and medical settings as gripper arms, tissue patches, targeted drug delivery, or robots.
The Built Environment reimagined: What trees can teach us about design
https://www.oneearth.org/the-built-environment-reimagined/
From tree to tech. Biomimicry and the future of materials.
Quantum Ayurveda and Global Health Innovation
https://www.wholefoodsmagazine.com/articles/17761-quantum-ayurveda-and-global-health-innovation
According to its latest published policy report, Quantum Ayurveda: Engineering Tradition for Global Health Innovation, India is poised to be the intersection between tradition and technology— the ingredients of next-generation’s wellness innovation
The Next Big Climate Play: Blockchain-Verified Carbon-Removal Credits
The old model of carbon credit verification was slow, inconsistent and often unverifiable.
How quantum sensors could make submarines almost impossible to hide
Quantum sensors are devices that pick up the tiniest changes in magnetic fields or gravity by harnessing the strange laws of quantum physics.
8 Breakthrough Technology Trends That Will Transform Healthcare In 2026
AI, virtual hospitals, CRISPR, quantum, robotics, and synthetic data.
The future of the web is the history of YouTube
https://a16z.substack.com/p/the-future-of-the-web-is-the-history
Content is now an application; apps are now content
