The advantage isn’t prediction. It’s how fast your team can notice change and respond.
Pick one mindcandy prompt below. Discuss it. Decide your moves.
Do you want you a repeatable operating rhythm to sense signals early, decide priorities faster, and act with real strategic options? See how this works.
Today’s prompt: networked robotics
Robotics is quietly moving from single-purpose machines to modular, networked systems:
Hardware that can be recombined like LEGO.
Robots connected via IoT, sharing data and learning globally.
Continuous improvement driven by collective experience, not local trial and error.
On the same day we see:
Wireless energy moving from theory to application.
Robotics entering rehabilitation and daily life.
Smart pills, liquid crystal lenses, organoids, immune “nurseries”.
This isn’t about robots replacing people. It’s about capability becoming fluid. When robotics becomes modular and networked, the advantage shifts:
From owning assets → to orchestrating systems.
From efficiency → to adaptability.
From scale → to learning speed.
Most business owners are still thinking in terms of tools. The real opportunity is platform logic applied to the physical world. If machines can reconfigure, learn collectively, and operate continuously, what parts of your business model quietly become obsolete?
https://www.therobotreport.com/qualcomm-introduces-general-purpose-architecture-for-robotics/
The business owner question
If robotics becomes modular, networked, and self-improving, which part of your operation would you redesign first if you were starting today — and why haven’t you already?
Other prompts:
My latest book about books about AI: You are the upgrade
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
ATDev develops Reflex to bring robotics and AI to rehabilitation
A company is working on the next generation of systems to help people with rehabilitation and daily life. Their idea of using robotics for physical therapy
https://www.therobotreport.com/atdev-develops-reflex-to-bring-robotics-and-ai-to-rehabilitation/
Pills that communicate from the stomach could improve medication adherence
MIT engineers designed capsules with biodegradable radio frequency antennas that can reveal when the pill has been swallowed
https://news.mit.edu/2026/pills-communicate-from-stomach-could-improve-medication-adherence-0108
Wireless Electricity: Dismissed As Pie In The Sky—Until Now?
Is it true that wireless electricity distribution is a thing? And can we expect to see it implemented widely in our lifetime?
https://emagazine.com/wireless-electricity-could-it-really-be/
Biopharma Trends 2026
Near term, margins are under increasing threat at time when the industry is already underperforming. Longer term, a combination of scientific, technological, business, and geopolitical pressures is pushing companies to shift priorities in R&D and business development, despite persistent unmet patient needs.
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2026/reimagining-business-models-biopharma-trends
Aging Weakens Immunity. An mRNA Shot Turned Back the Clock in Mice.
The treatment converted the liver into an immune cell “nursery” that pumped out greater numbers of healthy T cells.
Researchers are getting organoids pregnant with human embryos
Here’s what a pregnancy looks like inside a microfluidic chip.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/23/1130415/organoid-uterus-microfluidic-chip-embryo/
When Being a Family Business Becomes a Competitive Advantage
Family businesses often underestimate the strategic power of their familial identity, defaulting instead to corporate models that erode the trust and long-term relationships that set them apart.
https://hbr.org/2026/01/when-being-a-family-business-becomes-a-competitive-advantage
Injected Molecules Cross Into Brain To Stop Stroke’s Second Attack
The molecules, which the team calls “dancing molecules” due to their constant motion, crossed the blood-brain barrier and localized in injured tissue without causing toxicity.
https://scienceblog.com/injected-molecules-cross-into-brain-to-stop-strokes-second-attack/
Instant Bifocals: New Glasses Can Change Their Prescription on the Fly Depending on What You’re Looking At
These special glasses have “dynamic lenses” made of liquid crystals, which can transform to accommodate whatever focal length the user’s eyesight requires
https://futurism.com/health-medicine/new-glasses-change-lens
