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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 1, 3, 5, and 10 years time horizons.
Scenario prompts 1 April 2025
Todays prompts are quantum entanglement , semi-transparent wood, smart electronic skin, Bill Gates, brain implants, bio-printing, and sustainability leadership.
Sustainability is not going to go away
Strange metals puzzle solved: How quantum entanglement could reshape energy use
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/quantum-breakthrough-in-strange-metals
These materials are closely linked to high-temperature superconductors, which have the potential to make electricity transmission much more efficient.
Making sturdy, semi-transparent wood with cheap, natural materials
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1077012
Made by modifying wood’s natural structure, this material has been proposed as a sturdy, eco-friendly plastic alternative.
Smartest electronic skin with ‘brain’ could be magnetic miracle for humans, robots
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/electronic-skin-brain-human-robots
Scientists have created an ultra-thin, flexible electronic skin (e-skin) that can detect and track magnetic fields using a single global sensor.
Bill Gates Expects the Age of Complete Human Dominance to End Within 10 Years … and He’s Rooting for It
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a64317797/bill-gates-ai-dominance/
Gates believes that the advancement of AI will actually be a benefit to humanity, in the sense that a much wider availability of intelligence should be able to provide quality education and medical care to even the poorest demographics. Make up your own mind https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/.
Brain Implant ‘Streams’ a Paralyzed Woman’s Thoughts as If She’s Speaking in Near Real Time
The system, which also synthesizes her voice, takes no more than a second to translate thoughts to speech.
New Bioprinted Fat Tissue Could Treat Burns, Foot Ulcers, and Sores, Say Korean Researchers
Bioprinting continues its steady march toward the ambitious goal of making new tissue and organs commonplace.
Sustainability leadership doesn’t need a CSO – just a CFO that gets it
https://www.raconteur.net/finance/sustainability-leadership-cfo
A strategically engaged CFO is the most effective weapon against the growing anti-ESG movement. They alone have the power to align corporate strategy and sustainability goals
