#Mindcandy are scenario prompts to help companies formulate strategy. Find out more here.
The scenario prompts 1 July 2025 is Ayurveda 2.0 or Ayurvedic AI. How long will it take to include ancient wisdom into AI. Allowing for augmented wisdom.
The other prompts are smart capsules, tiny light-sensitive magnetic robots, artificial human DNA, retail, sodium fuel cells, cooperative, living building material, and you are the upgrade.
New "Smart Capsule" to Study the Health of the GI Tract
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/new-smart-capsule-to-study-the-health-of-the-gi-tract
The PillTrek smart capsule measures just 7 millimeters in diameter and 25 millimeters in length.
Tiny light-sensitive magnetic robots can clear up bacterial infections in sinuses
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-tiny-sensitive-magnetic-robots-bacterial.html
Copper single–atom–doped bismuth oxoiodide microbots, each smaller than a grain of salt, that can be tracked and guided to the location of infection via X-ray imaging, thus providing a precise, minimally invasive therapeutic strategy for managing sinusitis clinically.
UK: World’s first artificial human DNA project sparks both hopes and fears
https://interestingengineering.com/science/uk-worlds-first-artificial-human-dna-project
The concept of synthesizing a human genome, or writing life from scratch, has been considered a taboo.
The Future of Retail: How AI, Experience, and Sensory Design Are Reshaping Brick-and-Mortar
What was once a futuristic experiment is now a foundational layer of modern retail strategy. Rather than viewing AI as a point solution, retailers now see it as an integrated capability to enhance every touchpoint across the customer journey — from supply chain to in-store experience
New Sodium fuel cell could transform green aviation and shipping
https://www.techexplorist.com/sodium-fuel-cell-transform-green-aviation/99777/
A sodium-air fuel cell could packs 3x more energy per kg than today's lithium-ion batteries - enough to electrify aviation and more.
5 Ways Cooperatives Can Shape the Future of AI
https://hbr.org/2025/06/5-ways-cooperatives-can-shape-the-future-of-ai
AI development is dominated by a handful of powerful firms, raising concerns about equity, accountability, and social harm. AI cooperatives—democratically governed and community-owned—offer a promising alternative.
The Rise of Ayurveda 2.0: Where Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Innovation
Ayurveda, India’s ancient system of medicine rooted in natural healing and holistic wellness, is experiencing a powerful resurgence—this time through the lens of modern innovation.
A building material that lives and stores carbon
https://superinnovators.com/2025/06/a-building-material-that-lives-and-stores-carbon/
ETH Zurich develops innovative material incorporating cyanobacteria, capable of sequestering more carbon than typical biological methods.
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.
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