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Scenario prompts 29 Augustus 2024
Today’s prompts are printing milk, the warehouse of the future, china’s humanoid robot strategy, digital twinning, solar, wireless energy, living plastic, moonshots, wave energy, mega trends, DNA-tech, and an opportunity to pre-order my book about books about AI.
What is your next loonshot?
Coming soon from Milkadamia: 2D-printed sheets of oat milk
https://www.trendwatching.com/innovations/coming-soon-from-milkadamia-2d-printed-sheets-of-oat-milk
Printing milk……
The Warehouse of the Future: Where Sci-Fi Meets Supply Chain
Warehouses will move to urban centers but, more importantly, will use 3D printing technology “to ‘print’ products on demand and then package and deliver them just as they do products from inventory.
China’s Humanoid Robot Strategy looks a lot like its EV strategy
https://www.readfuturist.com/chinas-humanoid-robot-strategy-looks-a-lot-like-its-ev-strategy/
Total investment into China’s robotics industry in the last decade has exceeded $14.01 billion.
Digital twinning the physical world for a sustainable future
We live in phygital (physical + digital) times where we all utilize the power of data.
AI Cracks the Chemistry Code to Better, Longer-lasting Solar Panels
https://scitechdaily.com/ai-cracks-the-chemistry-code-to-better-longer-lasting-solar-panels/
Researchers have leveraged artificial intelligence to enhance the photostability of molecules for solar energy applications, achieving molecules four times more stable than previous ones.
New invention harvests ambient Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals to power small devices
Wasted radio signals can be converted into electricity using a new kind of antenna rooted in how electrons behave at a quantum level. Wireless energy.
New ‘Living Plastic’ Self-Destructs Once It’s Thrown Away
https://www.sciencealert.com/new-living-plastic-self-destructs-once-its-thrown-away
The hopeful technology was inspired by the power of plastic-munching proteins, which are naturally produced by a species of bacteria discovered in 2016 at a recycling facility in Japan.
Compute Moonshots: Harnessing New Physics
https://www.mackenziemorehead.com/compute-moonshots/
Read https://www.ronimmink.com/innovation-managing-solid-fluid-superfluid-s-p-type-loonshots/
Scientists Are on the Cusp of Unleashing the Power of the World’s Largest Battery
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a61974351/ocean-wave-energy/
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the theoretical annual energy potential of crashing waves along the U.S. coast is some 2.64 trillion kilowatt hours.
The Mega Trends That Will Shape Our Future World
Top Mega Trends that will shape our future. The Trends wheel summarises these trends across Horizon 1, 2, and 3.
Forget conventional electronics, DNA tech stores data, offers computing functions
https://interestingengineering.com/science/dna-tech-stores-data-computing-functions
Users can also erase targeted pieces of DNA and then rewrite to the same surface, like deleting and rewriting information stored on the hard drive.
A book about books about AI
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
So far, taking the perspective from 22 books/authors covering intelligence (there are many forms), work, synthetic biology, transhumanism, economics, spiritualism, digital transformation, data, etc. When you go through the books again, you start to wonder if we are asking the right questions. Pre-order to stay in the loop.
