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Scenario prompts 2 December 2024
Today’s prompts are uncertainty, tiny labs, leadership, weird trends, e-commerce, communication structures, quantum computing, 10 innovative companies from India, cognitive cities, and diamonds as a storage device.
Use the prompts to question relevance, opportunity vs threat, if vs when, timelines, impact and responses. Consider multiple futures.
What are you predicting for 2025? Are you ready?
An Uncertain Future Requires Uncertain Prediction Skills
https://www.wired.com/story/embrace-uncertainty-forecasting-prediction-skills/
Forecasting is both art and science, reliant on both rigor and luck—but you can develop a mindset that anticipates and plans ahead. Also see https://www.ronimmink.com/eoypafnysdp-online-or-in-sunny-spain/
How tiny electric labs are helping researchers fight pathogens
How tiny laboratories that fit in your hand can rapidly identify pathogens using electricity.
7 Mistakes Business Leaders Are Guaranteed To Make In 2025
As leaders navigate complexity in 2025, they’re making decisions that could fatally undermine their organizations’ future success.
A look back at the four of the weirdest, scariest tech trends of 2024
https://www.smartcompany.com.au/technology/four-weirdest-scariest-tech-ai-trends-2024/
AI, mind reading headphones, ageing and female philanthropy
Ecommerce in 2025: 5 trends shaping the future of online selling
Video, personnalisation, micro purchasing, flexible payment, and simplified shipping.
Communication Structures in a Growing Organization
https://jessitron.com/2024/11/24/communication-structures-in-a-growing-organization/
Systems scale with federation and levels. Company communication is no exception.
Light allows creation of quantum computers with ordinary displays and lasers
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/quantum-computer-with-ordinary-display-and-laser
A quantum computer made with ordinary and easily available components can boost quantum research in many parts of the world.
Meet Top 10 Companies Revolutionizing The Market And Transforming Their Sectors
From tech-driven solutions to creative storytelling, these businesses are not just meeting market demands but setting new benchmarks for excellence.
Cognitive Cities: Blending AI, AR & the Built Environment
https://arinsider.co/2024/11/27/cognitive-cities-blending-ai-ar-the-built-environment/
The vision of a cognitive city places the human at the center of the cognitive experience
Diamond optical discs could store data for millions of years
https://www.popsci.com/science/diamond-optical-discs/
Researchers used lasers to make space for files on an atomic level.
