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Scenario prompt 30 July 2025
The prompt for today is AI strategy archetypes. Bold innovators, disciplined integrators, fast followers or strategic builders. I think those archetypes apply to all change, not only AI (think robotics, VR, programmable biology, nano, etc.). What strategy archetype are you?
The other scenario prompts are conscious organoids, continuous reinvention, change resilience, brain recoding, haptic technology, the narrow start up, bionic eyes, and you are the upgrade.
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Scientists Are Growing Miniature Human Brains in the Lab. No One Knows If They’ll Become Conscious.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a65447686/brain-organoids-consciousness/
These gooey blobs of human brain matter could develop a type of intelligence we’ve never seen before.
Building a culture for continuous reinvention: why your success depends on human change
https://www.kyndryl.com/us/en/institute/culture-of-reinvention
The biggest threat to your transformation isn’t resistance. It’s repetition.
A Guide to Building Change Resilience in the Age of AI
https://hbr.org/2025/07/a-guide-to-building-change-resilience-in-the-age-of-ai
Organizations face technical barriers such as poor data quality, integration complexity, or infrastructure costs, the primary obstacle is the ability of companies to adapt, reinvent, and scale new ways of working.
Scientists “Read Minds” By Opening The Brain’s “Filing Cabinet” Of Memories
They read the patients’ minds” by figuring out, just from their brain recordings, what type of image they were remembering at a given moment.
New haptic technology adds the sense of touch to virtual reality
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-07-haptic-technology-virtual-reality.html
Scientists have developed a wearable system that enables more natural and emotionally engaging interactions in shared digital spaces, opening new possibilities for remote work, education, health care and beyond.
The Smartest Consumer Apps Now Cost $200 a Month
https://a16z.com/narrow-startups/
The rise of the Narrow Startup
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Joins Study Working Toward a Bionic Eye
Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink Corp. is collaborating with researchers in California and Spain on a clinical trial to study visual prosthetics.
Will Your Gen AI Strategy Shape Your Future or Derail It?
https://hbr.org/2025/07/will-your-gen-ai-strategy-shape-your-future-or-derail-it
Bold innovators seek to reshape their markets with gen AI. Disciplined integrators focus on trust, control, and compliance. Fast followers target quick wins, using gen AI for low-cost, high-impact solutions. Strategic builders take a long-term view, developing gen AI to own IP and drive sustained advantage.
You are the upgrade
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
