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Scenario prompts 4 June 2025
The scenario prompt for today is growing consumer boycotts. AI will make everything transparent, including your impact on your staff, the environment and your contribution to society. Re-examine your purpose and guiding principles.
The other prompts are photosynthesis, animal cloning, Brian implants, concrete sea batteries, self-healing, stretchable transistors and circuits, living plastic, artificial blood, lichen concrete, and marketing to machines.
Walmart, Target and other companies warn about growing consumer boycotts
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/28/business/consumer-boycotts-walmart-target
Companies are warning investors about the risks of becoming the next target of angry customers.
3D genome mapping technology sheds light on how plants regulate photosynthesis
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-3d-genome-technology-photosynthesis.html
Chinese researchers have developed a technology that sheds light on how the three-dimensional (3D) organization of plant genomes influences gene expression—especially in photosynthesis.
Inside the creepy, surprisingly routine business of animal cloning
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/07/animal-cloning-industry/682892/
Really and truly, a horse can be alive forever. Forever and ever.
A Neuralink Rival Just Tested a Brain Implant in a Person
https://www.wired.com/story/paradromics-neuralink-rival-tested-brain-implant/
The device is designed to translate neural signals into synthesized speech, text, and cursor control.
Scientists Are Sinking Concrete Batteries Underwater. An Energy Revolution Is Coming.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a64930513/concrete-batteries-energy/
The undersea technology is called StEnSea (Stored Energy in the Sea).
Scalable method creates self-healing, stretchable transistors and circuits
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-scalable-method-stretchable-transistors-circuits.html
The scalable method to create self-healing stretchable transistors and circuits introduced by the researchers could support the development of implantable devices that can measure electrophysiological signals in the brain, vagus nerve, spinal cord, peripheral nerve and even heart tissues
Scientists Create Living Plastic Alternative
https://futurism.com/scientists-living-plastic
Using mushrooms, scientists have created a living, plastic-like compound that uses the fungi's unique properties to mold it into almost any form.
Artificial Blood That Could Work for All Blood Types in Trials
https://www.newsweek.com/artificial-blood-japan-all-blood-types-2079654
The World Health Organization estimates that more than 118 million blood donations are collected each year—with 40 percent coming from high-income countries, home to 16 percent of the world's population.
Scientists Developed a Kind of 'Living Concrete' That Heals Its Own Cracks
Lichens were able to heal cracks in concrete by depositing large amounts of calcium carbonate, gluing the crack back together and preventing it from spreading further.
Walmart, Target and other companies warn about growing consumer boycotts
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/28/business/consumer-boycotts-walmart-target
Companies are warning investors about the risks of becoming the next target of angry customers.
Marketing To Machines: A New Performance Strategy In The Age Of AI Agents
The traditional marketing funnel is quickly being rewritten – not by a consumer trend but by a shift in how machines process and recommend information.
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