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Scenario prompts 23 June 2025
The scenario prompt for today is the future of business systems. Look at the image. Consider terms such as hyper-synthetic data, earth intelligence, sensor fusion, polyfunctional robots, and of course AI.
The other prompts are squid skin, circularity, sustainability, robots doing a heart transplant (without cracking open the chest), human-animal chimeras, 37 dimensions, innovation, cyborg tadpoles, and you are the upgrade.
Color-changing skins inspired by squids created for robots to react without wires, screens
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/skins-mimic-octopus-abilities-to-help-future-robots
The stretchable skins could enable wearable tech that monitors temperature, pH, and humidity—all at once without rigid electronics.
How Circularity Can Be a Strategic Response to Tariffs
https://hbr.org/2025/06/how-circularity-can-be-a-strategic-response-to-tariffs
Globalization is fracturing. Tariffs, trade wars, resource nationalism, and supply chain shocks are no longer rare disruptions—they’re the new normal. Read https://www.ronimmink.com/deglobalisation-and-system-collapse/
Companies that integrate sustainability at their core today will shape the future
https://www.deloitte.com/nl/en/issues/climate/sustainability-transformation-overview.html
Sustainability is not an option but a strategic necessity.
First fully robotic heart transplant in the US performed without opening patient's chest
The robot navigated through the preperitoneal space in the abdominal wall to remove the diseased heart. The same route was then used to implant the donor organ.
Human cells grown in mice in ‘crazy’ experiment, lab-grown organs one step closer
Scientists have advanced human-animal chimera research by successfully growing human cells within the organs of mice.
Scientists Produced a Particle of Light That Simultaneously Accessed 37 Different Dimensions
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a65104608/light-37-dimensions-quantum-mechanics/
If we’ve only discovered the tip of the iceberg, just imagine what quantum breakthroughs are lurking just below the surface.
What Neuromorphic Computing Can Teach Us About Innovation
https://su-7432255.hs-sites.com/the-singularity-monthly-neuromorphic-computing-innovation
By innovating along a completely different path from existing solutions, your organization can take advantage of a variety of techniques and technologies. For example, neuromorphic computing suggests that you could leverage biomimicry, moonshot thinking and ecosystem thinking.
Early-Stage Technology Disruptions and Trends Set to Define the Future of Business Systems
https://www.latimes.com/b2b/ai-technology/story/2025-06-22/gartner-tech-trends-ai-cloud-security
Through its research and surveys of C-suiters, Gartner, Inc. has identified the most likely emerging technology disruptions that will impact businesses and define the future of business system
‘Cyborg Tadpoles’ With Super Soft Neural Implants Shine Light on Early Brain Development
Tofu-like probes capture the activity of individual neurons in tadpole embryos as they grow.
You are the upgrade
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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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