Mind candy are prompts to help you to keep up to date, develop strategic responses to trends and train your change muscle, making you more resilient and agile for the future. If you need help with developing these prompts, you can book a free appointment here. If you want me to speak at your event, contact me at ron@ronimmink.com
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 varying time horizons—1, 3, 5, and 10 years.
Scenario prompts 12 February 2025
Todays prompts are exponential technologies, robots and war, quantum teleportation, synthetic smart cells, growing teeth, biology based sensors, your AI twin, insect drones and my take on “Our final invention”.
Will you be part of the 50%?
Exponential Technologies: The Secret to Scaling Faster and Smarter
https://www.burrus.com/2025/02/exponential-technologies-help-you-scale-faster-and-smarter/
By 2030, 50% of Fortune 500 companies we know today will no longer exist. The reason? Failure to anticipate exponential technological change.
U.S. Navy leaders agree: “Embrace the robots”
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/05/military-robots-navy-drones-san-diego
U.S. Navy Special Warfare Command boss Rear Adm. Milton Sands told crowds in San Diego the military must “embrace the robots,” as “machine-on-machine fighting” rages and humans stick to safer margins.
Oxford Scientists Say They’ve Achieved Quantum Teleportation
https://futurism.com/oxford-scientists-quantum-teleportation-supercomputers
Researchers say they’ve achieved quantum teleportation — stitching together separate quantum computers to run an algorithm collaboratively, across a distance.
Bioengineers Create “Smart Cells” That Detect and Fight Disease in Real-Time
https://scitechdaily.com/bioengineers-create-smart-cells-that-detect-and-fight-disease-in-real-time/
Rice lab pioneers an assembly kit for synthetic sense-and-respond circuits in human cells.
Human-like teeth successfully grown in a pig’s mouth
https://www.popsci.com/science/human-teeth-pig-mouth/
Researchers believe lab-grown teeth could one day serve as an alternative to synthetic dental implants.
Recyclable artificial vision system uses honey as an electrolyte
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-recyclable-artificial-vision-honey-electrolyte.html
The system uses organic, biodegradable and recyclable parts to ‘see’ and ‘remember’ colors while drawing a tiny amount of power.
Meet your AI twin: It acts just like you
https://www.ibm.com/think/news/ai-simulations-stanford-research
Your digital doppelgänger has arrived. Researchers from Stanford have created AI versions of more than 1,000 people who can supposedly think and make decisions just like their human counterparts.
MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs
Scientists have built a new type of robotic insect that can fly 100 times longer than previous generations.
AI and Chernobyl
https://www.ronimmink.com/ai-and-chernobyl/
Artificial intelligence could drive mankind into extinction. A Chernobyl for AI looms if artificial intelligence is left unchecked.
