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Scenario prompts 29 November 2024
Today’s prompts are manta rays, reperfusion, autonomous weapons, Minecraft AI, disruption, a tiny, four-fingered “hand” folded from a single piece of DNA, super fast conduction, biological electricity, biological electricity, bat blood and EOYPAFNYSDP (online or in sunny Spain).
Use the prompts to question relevance, opportunity vs threat, if vs when, timelines, impact and responses. Consider multiple futures.
Are you turning disruption into opportunities?
To design better water filters, MIT engineers look to manta rays
https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-engineers-design-manta-ray-inspired-water-filters-1125
Engineers fabricated a simple water filter modeled after the mobula ray’s plankton-filtering features.
The radical treatments bringing people back from the brink of death
Reperfusion technologies that can reanimate human brains are raising the possibility that death could be a reversible condition, even hours after a cardiac arrest
The Technology for Autonomous Weapons Exists. What Now?
https://undark.org/2024/11/26/unleashed-autonomous-weapons/
In the future, humans may not be the only arbiters of who lives and dies in war, as weapons gain decision-making power.
These AI Minecraft characters did weirdly human stuff all on their own
Hundreds of LLM-powered AI agents spontaneously made friends, invented jobs, and spread religion.
Thriving in 2025: Your Blueprint for Turning Disruption Into Opportunity
https://www.burrus.com/2024/11/your-blueprint-for-turning-disruption-into-opportunity/
In today’s world, disruption isn’t the exception—it’s the rule. With the rise of AI, automation, and digital technologies, change is accelerating faster than ever.
Nanorobot hand made of DNA grabs viruses for diagnostics and blocks cell entry
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-nanorobot-dna-viruses-diagnostics-blocks.html
A tiny, four-fingered “hand” folded from a single piece of DNA can pick up the virus that causes COVID-19 for highly sensitive rapid detection and can even block viral particles from entering cells to infect them.
A Superfast Conductor Has Opened the Door for Epically Powerful Batteries
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a63013559/ion-conductor-battery/
Human cells are inspiring the next generation of energy storage.
Bio-inspired droplet-based systems herald a new era in biocompatible devices
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-bio-droplet-based-herald-era.html
Researchers have made a step toward realizing a form of “biological electricity” that could be used in a variety of bioengineering and biomedical applications, including communication with living human cells.
Interstellar dreams: Bat blood may enable human hibernation for long space travels
https://interestingengineering.com/space/bat-blood-human-hibernation-space-travels
Understanding how these blood cells adapt during hibernation is vital, as hibernating animals still require a functioning blood supply to deliver oxygen to their tissues even as their body temperatures drop significantly.
EOYPAFNYSDP (online or in sunny Spain)
https://www.ronimmink.com/eoypafnysdp-online-or-in-sunny-spain/
Slowly, things start to quiet down and as the year draws to a close, it is again time to reflect and plan for what’s next.
