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How to use the prompts
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 23 April 2025
Todays prompts are construction, augmented packaging, leadership laws, AI nose robots, antiviral chewing gum, human emotions sensors, venture capital trends, brain rights, rice-sized micro robots and bio-manufacturing 2.0.
Who owns the right to your brain?
Eco-voxels: Researchers pioneer reconfigurable building blocks for Earth and off-world construction
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-04-eco-voxels-reconfigurable-blocks-earth.html
Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a novel class of modular, reconfigurable, and sustainable building blocks—a new construction paradigm as well-suited for terrestrial homes as it is for extraterrestrial habitats.
How augmented reality is changing product packaging
https://www.packaging-gateway.com/features/how-augmented-reality-is-changing-product-packaging/
As AR technology continues to evolve, packaging is becoming an essential touchpoint for brands to connect with customers in exciting and memorable ways
Decoding human behavior: Laws every business leader should know
While human behavior is inherently nuanced and unpredictable, there are laws and principles that can improve our understanding of employees and colleagues.
AI Nose lets robots smell trouble, infections, and gas leaks before humans can
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/ainos-and-ugo-unlock-olfactory-sensing
Equipped with scent detection, robots can now make smarter, more intuitive decisions that could reshape industry and daily life.
Scientists Made Chewing Gum That Combats Herpes and the Flu
https://gizmodo.com/scientists-made-chewing-gum-that-combats-herpes-and-the-flu-2000592876
Here’s something to chew on: antiviral gum. Scientists have developed chewing gum that can safely trap the influenza virus and the viruses that cause herpes.
High-tech sticker can identify real human emotions
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-high-tech-sticker-real-human.html
A team has created a stretchable, rechargeable sticker that can detect real emotions—by measuring things like skin temperature and heart rate—even when users put on a brave face.
Top Venture Capital Trends To Watch in 2025
https://www.shopify.com/blog/venture-capital-trends
Fewer deals, AI peak, new funds, capital efficiency, growth of the creator economy and social selling
Who owns the rights to your brain?
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/who-owns-the-rights-to-your-brain/
Soon technology will enable us to read and manipulate thoughts.
New rice-sized microrobot could slip into brain to treat inoperable tumors
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/minimally-invasive-microrobot-navigates-brain
Moving at 3 mm/min, the microrobot uses rotating silicone rings to gently part brain tissue without causing cellular damage.
Dozens of Nobel-Worthy Innovations Awaiting Biomanufacturing 2.0
https://www.mackenziemorehead.com/dozens-of-nobel-worthy-innovations-awaiting-biomanufacturing-2-0/
Synthetic biology and biomanufacturing are only a matter of time.
