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Scenario prompts 13 June 2025
The scenario prompt for today is are we ready to hand AI agents the keys? My suggestion is that you most definitely cannot. Read my book about books about AI. One reviewer called it a meta-book.
The other prompts are harvesting drinking water out of air, quantum sensing, AR glasses (Snap), and regrowing limbs and tooth.
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Window-sized device taps the air for safe drinking water
https://news.mit.edu/2025/window-sized-device-taps-air-safe-drinking-water-0611
MIT has developed and tested a new atmospheric water harvester and shown that it efficiently captures water vapor and produces safe drinking water across a range of relative humidities, including dry desert air.
The GPS-Killer? This Quantum Device ‘Feels’ Motion Like A Brain—Down To The Atomic Level
Scientists have built a quantum navigation device that reads acceleration like a fingerprint scanner reads thumbprints.
Snap wants to put a computer on your face with new lightweight AR glasses
https://bgr.com/tech/snap-wants-to-put-a-computer-on-your-face-with-new-lightweight-ar-glasses/
Wearable computers — from headsets to glasses — have proliferated in recent years, but they still aren’t mainstream.
Axolotls can regrow limbs. Could they one day help us do the same?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/health/article/axolotl-regrow-limbs-retinoic-acid-human-medicine
A better understanding of how these amphibians grow new appendages may lead to better wound healing—or even new limbs—in humans.
Bioengineered tooth "grows" in place to look and feel like the real thing
https://newatlas.com/medical-devices/tooth-implant-innovation/
Dental implants look the part, but by design they can't replace actual teeth. Now scientists have developed an innovative new implant that "grows" into the gum and fuses with existing nerves to mimic the form and function of a real tooth. What's more, they're easier and gentler to put in place, with no bone drilling required.
Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys?
You should really read my new book….
You are the upgrade
You can order my latest book about books about AI, “You are the upgrade, augmented natural intelligence as the only way forward” here.
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
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