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Scenario prompts 18 April 2024
The topics are Baidu, AI slime, distribution (is king), curiosity, whales and dolphins now having legal personhood, system thinking and strategy, flow, gaming (and storytelling), 38 trillion, labour on demand and quantum memory.
What is the flow score in your company?
Baidu says AI chatbot ‘Ernie Bot’ has attracted 200 million users
Check out https://www.ronimmink.com/disruption-from-the-east/
Is the ‘Dead Internet’ theory suddenly coming true? This could be a sign
https://www.fastcompany.com/91092650/dead-internet-theory-true-tiktok-ai-influencers
AI-generated slime are getting their engagement from other accounts that also appear to be AI-controlled.
Distribution Is King
https://every.to/napkin-math/distribution-is-king
Content innovation grows audiences, and distribution innovation creates enterprise value
Human Curiosity in the Age of AI
https://nesslabs.com/human-curiosity-in-the-age-of-ai?
Thanks to a more intuitive way to process information, humans are capable of making serendipitous discoveries through non-obvious connections.
Whales and dolphins now have legal personhood in the Pacific – but one treaty won’t be enough to protect them
Whales and dolphins will be recognised as having the same rights as humans, in a bid to better protect them. Indigenous leaders across the Pacific have granted these ocean creatures rights in the same way as people, in a vital conservation step.
Systems thinking in developing corporate strategy for organisations
Let’s face it, the universe is messy. It is non-linear, turbulent, and chaotic. It is dynamic. It spends its time in transient behaviour on its way to somewhere else, not in mathematically neat equilibria. It self-organizes and evolves. It creates diversity, not uniformity. That’s what makes the world interesting, that’s what makes it beautiful, and that’s what makes it work
Brain scans of Philly jazz musicians reveal secrets to reaching creative flow
What is your Flowscore? Read https://www.ronimmink.com/flowscore-as-a-future-metric-for-your-company/
Are video games coming for the novel?
https://www.ft.com/content/0011d15a-4f37-4fc6-8e10-52d6f023238e
With immersive storylines and powerful, emotive writing, some of the most thrilling fiction out there is being created in game form.
Is $38 trillion a lot?
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/is-38-trillion-a-lot
Read https://www.ronimmink.com/90000000000000-reasons-seize-biggest-opportunity-since-internet/.
The regional flavors of labor-on-demand
https://restofworld.org/2024/exporter-labor-on-demand/
The future of work? Read https://www.ronimmink.com/optimistic-about-the-future-of-work/
‘Quantum memory’ could make the internet super fast and secure
https://www.futurity.org/quantum-memory-speed-internet-3207052/
Researchers have developed a new way to create quantum memory: A small drum can store data sent with light in its sonic vibrations, and then forward the data with new light sources when needed again.
