Scenario prompts are part of my straightforward 4-step strategy development programme.
Today’s topics to consider are green cities, AI monitoring, AI robots, social discovery, sustainability trends, green hushing, climate change predictions, strategies for an accelerating future, DNA storage, sentient Ai, gaming and story telling and Fortnite.
What impossible thing can you do now?
Greener cities: a necessity or a luxury?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00477-y?
Are urban trees and parks essential to improving the environment and human health — or just a sop to middle-class ideals of gentrification?
AI monitoring employees for ‘thought crimes’ in apps like Slack and Zoom
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/12/ai-monitoring-employee-comms/?
One AI model claims to be able to analyse the content and sentiment of both text and images posted by employees
Scientists Are Putting ChatGPT Brains Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The effort to give robots AI brains is revealing big practical challenges—and bigger ethical concerns
An Outlook On Social Discovery: Trends Transforming How We Connect
High-fidelity avatars, AI personalisation and niche community.
Top Sustainability Trends to Watch in 2024
Disclosure, justice, human capital, enforcement and stakeholder activism.
Want to stop greenhushing? Make sustainability a strategic growth decision
Consumers are hungry for you to put your money where your values are
Climate change predictions: Anticipating and adapting to a warming world
https://www.ibm.com/blog/climate-change-predictions-anticipating-and-adapting-to-a-warming-world/
Heat, drought, flooding, changing ocean chemistry, sea rise and biodiversity loss.
Strategies for an Accelerating Future
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/strategies-for-an-accelerating-future?
What impossible thing can you do now?
The quest for a DNA data drive
https://spectrum.ieee.org/dna-data-storage?
Gartner predicts that by 2030, the shortfall in enterprise storage capacity alone could amount to nearly two-thirds of demand, or about 20 million petabytes
The Truth About Sentient AI: Could Machines Ever Really Think or Feel?
Plain and simple, all sentient beings are conscious beings, but not all conscious beings are sentient.
From Pixels to Politics: How Video Games Can Inspire a Green New World
https://atmos.earth/from-pixels-to-politics-how-video-games-can-inspire-a-green-new-world/?
A growing movement of gamers is leveraging the medium’s limitless imagination to redefine and reshape what’s possible in the climate conversation.
Fortnite is winning the metaverse
https://www.theverge.com/24065901/fortnite-metaverse-disney-epic-partnership
At present, Fortnite doesn’t exactly match the sci-fi vision of a virtual world. Logging in to the game looks more like browsing the YouTube homepage than jacking into the matrix. But beginnings of that interconnectedness are there, with elements like your avatar and XP carrying over between experiences.
