Scenario prompts are a way to develop 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 8 January 2025
Todays prompts are 10 breakthrough technologies, electricity from air, brain-computer interfaces, convergence, neurobiology, NVIDIA, AI in your organisation chart, electronic brain reading tattoos and 14 fourteen wild ideas (2100).
What are your predictions for 2100?
10 Breakthrough Technologies
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/03/1109178/10-breakthrough-technologies-2025/
Telescopes, AI, SLMs, cattle burping, robo-taxis, jet fuel, fast learning robots, HIV, green steel, and stem cell.
Mankind has just achieved a historic milestone: Producing electricity from air
https://www.eldiario24.com/en/electricity-air-scientists-us/7000/
Nearly any material can be turned into a device that continuously harvests electricity from humidity in the air.
Brain-computer interface developed in China decodes thought real-time
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/bci-china-decode-thought-real-time
NeuroXess’ new BCI, implanted into a epileptic patient’s brain, could not only decipher the complex Chinese language but also operate a robotic arm and interact with AI.
Twelve tech trends to watch in 2025: The dawn of the convergence era
Individual breakthroughs are being integrated into complex developments that will reshape the digital landscape in the coming years
Recognizing advances in neurobiology: The 2024 Eppendorf & Science Prize
Airway repair, spinal injuries and the blood-brain barrier.
CES 2025: AI Advancing at ‘Incredible Pace,’ NVIDIA CEO Says
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ces-2025-jensen-huang/
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang kicked off CES 2025 with a 90-minute keynote that included new products to advance gaming, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and agentic AI.
What Happens When AI Joins the Org Chart?
https://every.to/working-overtime/what-happens-when-ai-joins-the-org-chart
From assistants to execs, AI is claiming a place in our workplaces
Electronic tattoo decodes brainwaves
https://www.futurity.org/electronic-tattoo-eeg-brainwaves-3262852/
A new conductive ink can be printed directly on the surface of a patient’s head and measure their brainwaves.
Fourteen Wild Ideas
https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/wildideas.html
Many Worlds, Medicine Useless, A.I. via Common Sense, Cryonics, Uploads, I’m in Sim, Fast Growth, Growth Stops, Colonize Galaxy, No Aliens, Aliens Came & Left, Private Law, Futarchy, No One Honest.
