#Mindcandy are scenario prompts prompts to help companies formulate strategy.
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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 27 March 2025
Todays prompts are sea water batteries, AI, the future of wearable haptics and multisensory touch, emerging food trends, biomimicry, abundant expertise, longevity clinics, collapse OS, shape shifting helmets, and forecasting using hard trends.
Trend forecasting should be your top priority.
Next-gen seawater batteries stand 380,000 charging cycles, could replace li-ion
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/seawater-batteries-stand-380000-charging-cycles
Aqueous batteries.
Doctors Told Him He Was Going to Die. Then A.I. Saved His Life
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/well/ai-drug-repurposing.html
Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines.
New Study Maps the Future of Wearable Haptics and Multisensory Touch
https://www.azosensors.com/news.aspx
How recent advances in wearable haptic devices are enabling more realistic, multisensory touch experiences through a combination of vibration, pressure, skin stretch, and temperature feedback.
From JOMO to grandma core: Top 10 emerging trends in 2025
https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2025/03/26/top-10-new-food-and-beverage-trends-in-2025/
Joy Of Missing Out, omnivore, fusion, more, weight, transparency food waste, sweet treats, snacking, and protein power.
New elephant trunk-mimicking robotic arm displays perfect strength, flexibility mix
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/hybrid-robot-arm-strength-flexibility
It’s flexible, extendable and compliant like an elephant trunk or octopus tentacle, but can also apply torques like a traditional industrial robot.
Strategy in an Era of Abundant Expertise
https://hbr.org/2025/03/strategy-in-an-era-of-abundant-expertise
AI is changing the cost and availability of expertise, and that will fundamentally alter how businesses organize and compete.
The quest to legitimize longevity medicine
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/18/1089888/the-quest-to-legitimize-longevity-medicine/
Longevity clinics offer a mix of services that largely cater to the wealthy. Now there’s a push to establish their work as a credible medical field.
The Best Programming Language for the End of the World
https://www.wired.com/story/forth-collapse-os-apocalypse-programming-language/
Once the grid goes down, an old programming language called Forth—and a new operating system called Collapse OS—may be our only salvation. Also read https://www.ronimmink.com/collapse-is-an-option/
Shape-Shifting Bike Helmet Could Redefine Cyclist Safety
https://scienceblog.com/564781/shape-shifting-bike-helmet-could-redefine-cyclist-safety
The innovative helmet utilizes special geometric patterns called “auxetic metastructures” in its shock-absorbing liner that behave unlike conventional helmet materials.
The Antidote to Uncertainty: Using Hard Trends to Predict the Future
https://www.burrus.com/2025/03/using-hard-trends-to-predict-the-future/
Trend forecasting should be your top priority.
