Mind candy are prompts to help you to keep up to date, develop strategic responses to trends and train your change muscle, making you more resilient and agile for the future. If you need help with developing these prompts, you can book a free appointment here. If you want me to speak at your event, contact me at ron@ronimmink.com
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 varying time horizons—1, 3, 5, and 10 years.
Scenario prompts 17 February 2025
Todays prompts are synthetic life, holograms, degrowth, data storage, miniaturised CRISPR, bioprinting personalised regenerative tissue implants, augmented reality, active matter, nose-computer Interfaces and my take on “All Hands on Tech: The AI-Powered Citizen Revolution”.
We are all citizens now
‘Mirror Life’ Is a Dangerous Scientific Vision. Here’s Why.
https://www.sciencealert.com/mirror-life-is-a-dangerous-scientific-vision-heres-why
Living cells made from building blocks with an opposite chirality to those that make up natural life – could have very similar properties to natural living cells.
This breakthrough holographic display could make AR glasses a reality in 2026
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/swave-holographic-ar-glasses/
Consumer AR glasses could soon become a reality thanks to a breakthrough holographic chip from Swave.
The Rise and Fall of Degrowth
https://razgo.medium.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-degrowth-63ce61b5a0f3
Almost half of CEOs worldwide, for example, believe they’ll need to reinvent their business to stay viable over the next 10 years.
Terabytes Of Data In A Millimeter Crystal
https://scienceblog.com/terabytes-of-data-in-a-millimeter-crystal/
Researcher have developed a method to store data using crystal defects as ones and zeroes, each the size of an individual atom
Miniaturized CRISPR Packs a Mighty Gene Editing Punch
https://singularityhub.com/2025/02/14/miniaturized-crispr-packs-a-mighty-gene-editing-punch/
But CRISPR had a problem: The system is too large, making it difficult to deliver the gene editor to cells in muscle, brain, heart, and other tissues.
Former 3D Systems’ Exec Launches GenesisTissue for Bioprinting
https://3dprint.com/316352/former-3d-systems-exec-launches-genesistissue-for-bioprinting/
GenesisTissue Inc. is a company focused on bioprinting personalized regenerative tissue implants.
Why Big Tech Thinks Augmented Reality is the Next Big Thing
Tech companies are increasingly determined to put a computer on your face.
Self-moving ‘synthetic worms’ created using electric fields in new breakthrough
https://interestingengineering.com/science/life-like-synthetic-worms-created
New active matter could lead to self-healing materials and targeted drug delivery systems.
A Nose-Computer Interface Could Turn Dogs Into Super Detectors
https://www.wired.com/story/nose-computer-interface-dogs-detectors-canaery/
A startup is partnering with a US Department of Energy lab to develop neural implants for rats and dogs that are capable of decoding what they smell.
We’re all programmers now
https://www.ronimmink.com/were-all-programmers-now/
An AI-powered citizen revolution. In short, the answer is “yes”.
