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Scenario prompts 4 July 2024
Today’s prompts are mind reading, expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045, mushrooms, nano transparent screen, light activated drugs and training your question muscle.
Ultra-detailed brain map shows neurons that encode words’ meaning
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02146-6
Mind reading computers….
AI scientist Ray Kurzweil: ‘We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045’
The Google futurist talks nanobots and avatars, deepfakes and elections – and why he is so optimistic about a future where we merge with computers
Cadillac and MycoWorks Collaborate on New Bio-based Material for Auto Interiors
The new material, intended to one day have the same applications as leather, incorporates mycelium, which is the renewable root structure of mushrooms, and other bio-based ingredients.
Mass production may soon make ultra-large nano transparent screens accessible to everyone
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-07-mass-production-ultra-large-nano.html
This innovative screen can adjust its transparency according to the environment and can be produced at a low cost, paving the way for the widespread adoption of large transparent screens, which until now have been prohibitively expensive.
DARPA Is Engineering Light-Activated Drugs to Keep Pilots Alert
Turning medicine (or the brain) on and off using light bursts……..
Train your question muscle
https://www.ronimmink.com/train-your-question-muscles/
I regard myself as what he calls a questionologist. Asking the questions that cut to the heart of a complex challenge or enable us to see an old problem in a new light. In a time of exponential change, it’s a twenty-first-century survival skill. Combined with humility as the new smart.
