#Mindcandy are scenario prompts to help companies formulate strategy. Also see https://www.ronimmink.com/strategy-development/.
Scenario prompts 8 May 2025
The scenario prompt for today is which exponential technologies are and will reshape your world. I will refer to my prompts for 2025 https://www.ronimmink.com/my-scenario-prompts-for-2025/. (Q)AI, data, blockchain and VR. Do you think they are hard trends and how will they impact/improve your business model?
The other prompts are forecasting the future, programmable biological tissue, edible batteries, disruption, the genomic revolution, plant intelligence, retrocausality and paradigm blindness.
What’s About to Disrupt Your Industry—And How to Lead It
https://www.burrus.com/whats-about-to-disrupt-your-industry-and-how-to-lead-it/
Which Exponential Technologies Are Already Reshaping Our World?
Why humans are still much better than AI at forecasting the future
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/411742/ai-forecasting-prediction-metaculus-llm
AI is the future. It just can’t predict it.
Programmable double-network gels: Interspecies interactions dictate structure, resilience and adaptability
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-programmable-network-gels-interspecies-interactions.html
The findings reveal a powerful framework for engineering next-generation soft materials with customizable behaviors, inspired by the complexity of biological tissues.
Robotic wedding cake with edible batteries
https://superinnovators.com/2025/05/robotics-meets-the-culinary-arts/
A Swiss Italian team has created a wedding cake with robotic jelly teddy bears and chocolate batteries
What’s About to Disrupt Your Industry—And How to Lead It
https://www.burrus.com/whats-about-to-disrupt-your-industry-and-how-to-lead-it/
Which Exponential Technologies Are Already Reshaping Our World?
The $100 billion genomic revolution
https://www.exponentialview.co/p/the-100-billion-genomic-revolution
In late 2023, the FDA approved the first CRISPR gene-editing treatment for sickle cell disease. But this isn’t just about CRISPR; it’s about the entire genomic technology stack coming of age simultaneously. Gene editing, gene therapies and sequencing are projected to create a market exceeding $100 billion by 2030
What Plants Are Saying About Us
https://nautil.us/what-plants-are-saying-about-us-264593/
Your brain is not the root of cognition. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/beyond-human-intelligence/
Can the future affect the past? Unsettling new physics research says the answer is YES
Retrocausality and the physics of time
The Mirror Principle: Paradigm Blindness Blinkers Organizations to Change
The real brake on innovation is the drag of old mental models.
