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Scenario prompt 11 July 2025
The scenario prompt for the weekend are superintelligence, mind controlled bees, 3D printing electronics, future proofing crops, water from thin air, bionics, soft trends, robots doing surgery independently and you are the upgrade. Pick one to contemplate.
Don’t take the race for ‘superintelligence’ too seriously
https://www.fastcompany.com/91363668/superintelligence
Focus on ANI (Augmented Natural Intelligence).
China mind-controls bees with ‘world’s lightest brain chip’ for spying, rescue ops
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/spy-bees-chinas-new-mind-controlled-bees
A new device weighing only 74 milligrams hooks right into the insect’s brain to control their movements.
3D printing method turns biodegradable polymers into conductive electronic components
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-07-3d-method-biodegradable-polymers-electronic.html
From touch-sensitive smartphone screens to fitness wearables and wireless earbuds, electronics are becoming ever more integrated into our daily lives—and smaller, lighter, and more flexible in the process.
To future-proof crops, science is half the battle. The other half is getting existing solutions into the field.
Unless we change something, by 2050 we will be losing so much food to the impacts of climate change, that we will need to double crop yields from current quantities. Closing this gap will require ‘future-proofing’ our crops, by using a suite of breeding technologies to build them armor against drought, flooding, and elevated levels of CO2.
This Device Pulls Water From Thin Air—Even in Death Valley
https://singularityhub.com/2025/07/10/this-device-pulls-water-from-thin-air-even-in-death-valley/
Portable, reusable, and affordable, the device is the latest in technologies aiming to expand access to drinking water.
A bionic knee integrated into tissue can restore natural movement
https://news.mit.edu/2025/bionic-knee-integrated-into-tissue-can-restore-natural-movement-0710
Unlike prostheses in which the residual limb sits within a socket, the new system is directly integrated with the user’s muscle and bone tissue. This enables greater stability and gives the user much more control over the movement of the prosthesis.
What Are Soft Trends—and How Can They Transform Your Business Strategy?
https://www.burrus.com/what-are-soft-trends-and-how-can-they-transform-your-business-strategy/
Unlike hard trends, which are future certainties, Soft Trends are future possibilities shaped by our choices and actions.
Robot surgery on humans could be trialled within decade after success on pig organs
Automated surgery.
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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