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Scenario Prompts – 13 November 2025
The scenario prompts for today is Nietzsche and AI. When AI is surpassing doctors, we need to start asking some questions. A new philosophy for the AI era must confront not only the question of how to remain human in the face of machines, but how to shape the systems through which humans and machines now co-exist. You should read “Technology vs humanity”. The link is in the blog.
The other prompts to expand your lens today are:
- You are the upgrade, a summary of 25 books about AI, the conclusion is augmented natural intelligence as the way forward
- Subsea habitats
- Standards in neurotecnology
- Playing safe is risky
- Skillcations
- Textiles in space
- Robot swarms
- Singapore
- AI surpassing doctors
- Engineered living materials (ELMs
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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.
The first new subsea habitat in 40 years is about to launch
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/07/1127682/vanguard-deep-subsea-habitat-launch/
Unveiled by the buzzy startup Deep, Vanguard will let teams of scientists live and work on the seabed for a week at a time.
Unesco adopts global standards on ‘wild west’ field of neurotechnology
The new standards were driven by two recent developments in neurotechnology: artificial intelligence (AI), which offers vast possibilities in decoding brain data, and the proliferation of consumer-grade neurotech devices such as earbuds that claim to read brain activity and glasses that track eye movements.
The innovator’s dilemma: why playing it safe is the riskiest move of all
https://www.raconteur.net/marketing-sales/the-innovators-dilemma-oped
Companies rise by serving their best customers, refining their products and maximising performance. Yet these same habits blind them to emerging possibilities. They keep improving what already works, while the future takes root somewhere else: opportunities that start smaller, simpler and easily dismissed.
‘Skillcations’ Are The Work Trend Of The Future, Career Experts Say
A new type of vacation called “skillcations” is gaining popularity, and workers are describing an entirely different afterglow when returning to the office.
From Loom to the Lunar Surface: The Unsung Role of Textiles in Space
Innovations in space fabrics influence terrestrial industries, redefining performance, protection, and sustainable material design.
The Robot Swarms Are Coming
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-robot-swarms-are-coming-c7e8425f
These days, many people are teaching robots to think like humans. But researchers in the field of swarm robotics are training machines to behave like ants, bees and even slime molds—simple creatures that achieve remarkable feats through collective intelligence.
Singapore Is Rewiring the Future
https://www.wired.com/sponsored/story/singapore-is-rewiring-the-future/
A city-state functioning as a global testbed, where entrepreneurs can take risky bets and bring them to market faster.
AI Surpassing Doctors: Implications for Healthcare
https://formtek.com/blog/ai-surpassing-doctors-implications-for-healthcare/
Artificial intelligence has reached a notable milestone in medical diagnostics, achieving accuracy levels that rival or surpass those of trained physicians in some controlled scenarios. Recent studies have demonstrated that advanced AI systems can outperform doctors in identifying complex disease cases.
Engineered living materials with bacterial spores show promise for self-healing and sustainability
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-materials-bacterial-spores-sustainability.html
Bacterial spores—the hardy survival structures formed by certain bacterial species—are proving to be a game changer in the field of engineered living materials (ELMs).
Why Nietzsche Matters in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/why-nietzsche-matters-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/
Nietzsche’s vision of the human as a value-creating, self-overcoming agent speaks powerfully to the psychological and cultural ruptures of the AI age. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/technology-vs-humanity-coming-clash-man-machine/
