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How to use the prompts
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 15 April 2025
Todays prompts are the 50 most innovative companies of 2025, how to prepare for an uncertain future, nanoscale brain sensors, marketing and story telling, micro satellites, sea vegetables, a mouse brain, strategy, mixed reality, living under water and fluid architecture.
Uncertainty is the only certainty. Use the scenario prompts.
The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2025
https://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/list
Fast company’s annual ranking of the world’s most innovative companies covers 58 industries and sectors, from advertising to video.
How to Prepare for an Uncertain Future
https://www.sahilbloom.com/newsletter/how-to-prepare-for-an-uncertain-future
Let’s begin with a simple truth. Uncertainty is the only certainty.
New nanoscale brain sensor exhibits 96.4% accuracy in identifying neural signals
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/georgia-tech-brain-sensor-96-4-accuracy-neural-signals
The new minuscule brain sensor uses microneedles to stay attached to the wearer, eliminating the need for conductive gel.
The Quiet Revolution That’s Changing How We Talk About Marketing
Read https://www.ronimmink.com/content-marketing-as-a-profit-centre/
US company to use giant spinning cannon to blast hundreds of pancake-like ‘microsatellites’ into space
A California-based startup plans to launch hundreds of flattened “microsatellites” into low-Earth orbit at once, by firing rockets out of a giant centrifugal cannon.
How to Sell a Sea Vegetable
https://ambrook.com/research/supply-chain/how-to-sell-a-sea-vegetable
Ramping up its production could put a new superfood on grocery shelves, while helping address a soil crisis that’s decimating the livelihoods of farmers from Bangladesh to the U.S. eastern seaboard.
Largest Brain Map Ever Reveals Hidden Algorithms of the Mammalian Brain
In a first, the 3D reconstruction of a mouse brain links structure to activity.
Five Big Questions Behind A Successful Strategy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/devpatnaik/2025/04/14/five-big-questions-behind-a-successful-strategy/
Who are we? What might happen? Where to play? How to win? What to do?
Transforming real-world doors into gateways to the virtual world: The future of mixed reality
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-04-real-world-doors-gateways-virtual.html
People seeking to feel fully immersed in virtual environments will soon be able to experience a revolutionary approach to spatial computing that bridges the gap between real and digital worlds.
Humanity Is Closer Than Ever to Living Underwater—And Our First Undersea Birth Could Happen By 2050
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a64391640/living-underwater/
A U.K. startup wants to be the SpaceX of the deep sea, and hopes to establish a permanent human residence on the ocean floor by 2027.
Tech and Touch: Navigating the Fluid States in Built Environments
At the core of these fluid states is the growing symbiosis between humans and AI.
