Mind candy are prompts to help you to keep up to date, develop strategic responses to trends and train your organisation’s 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 14 January 2025
Todays prompts are tachyons, drinking water, marketing trends, VR and sports, 100 year old predictions, virtual biology, digital immortality, the buzz words for 2025, and AI embodiment.
What is your buzz word for 2025
Tachyons Are the Cosmic Engines of Time Travel. We Just Need to Prove They Exist
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a45324140/tachyons-time-travel/
These theoretical particles ignore the basic structure of cause and effect. If scientists ever prove they’re real, tachyons would shatter our understanding of reality.
Safe drinking water for billions of people | China makes historic discovery on Earth
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/safe-drinking-water-china-discovery/10368/
Scientists in China and South Australia have come up with a way to make it faster and more efficient and that is by using clay minerals in a process powered by the sun in a solar-driven desalination process.
2025 Marketing Trends Brands Should Adopt For A Competitive Edge
Read https://www.ronimmink.com/content-marketing-as-a-profit-centre/
Jayden Daniels’ growth with VR simulation has Commanders embracing mind games
Kliff Kingsbury embraces the virtual reality simulation Jayden Daniels credits with advancing his quarterback skills
From immortality to ugly people: 100-year-old predictions about 2025
Nearly 100 years ago, a group of deep thinkers dared to imagine what life would be like in 2025. Some of their prophecies were completely off target, while others proved to be weirdly accurate.
A Virtual Cell Is a ‘Holy Grail’ of Science. It’s Getting Closer.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/01/generative-ai-virtual-cell/681246/
Inspired by large language models such as ChatGPT, the hope is that generative AI can decode the language of biology and then speak the language of biology.
How AI Is Bringing Us All Immortality — Whether We Want It Or Not
https://www.inverse.com/science/ai-digital-afterlife-philosophical-questions
Imagine attending a funeral where the person who has died speaks directly to you, answering your questions and sharing memories.
7 global buzzwords for 2025: From ‘techquity’ to ‘climate displacement’ to ‘belonging’
New words are indicators of trends.
A ChatGPT Moment Is Coming for Robotics. AI World Models Could Help Make It Happen.
What large language models are to systems like ChatGPT, world models are to the virtual world simulators needed to train robots.
