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Scenario prompts 16 June 2025
The scenario prompt for today is gentle singularity. We are still walk our dogs, drink our coffee, read a book. But under the hood, AI is reshaping how work gets done. As a business it not an if, but a when and a how. Remember AI is an accelerator, accelerating all the other prompts (hydrogen, robotics, biology, solar, etc.).
The other prompts are hydrogen, the Gartner tech trends, managing change, robotic sense of touch, tiny human hearts growing in pig embryos, shape shifting solar, modular robots, the ‘attention equation, and you are the upgrade
Myth from 1964 confirmed ― Goodbye to hydrogen as we know it
https://www.eldiario24.com/en/1964-hydrogen-spillover-penn-state/17611/
As scientists reveal the secret of hydrogen migration, industries will soon have access to lower-cost, safer hydrogen. Confirmation of spillover can initiate innovation that will further speed the transition worldwide to clean energy infrastructure.
Gartner Top Tech Trends 2025: Amazing Innovations Shaping Our Future
https://techgenyz.com/gartner-top-tech-trends-2025-amazing-innovations/
AI agents, AI governance, disinformation security, postquantum cryptography, ambient invisible intelligence, energy-efficient computing, hybrid computing, spatial computing, polyfunctional robots, and neurological enhancement
Change Usually Fails. Ask These 3 Questions To Improve Your Odds
https://digitaltonto.com/2025/change-usually-fails-ask-these-3-questions-to-improve-your-odds/
Where Will Resistance Come From? What Supports The Status Quo? Where Will You Start?
New Robotic Skin Gives Robots a Human-Like Sense of Touch
https://www.azosensors.com/news.aspx
Researchers have developed a low-cost, durable, and highly sensitive robotic ‘skin’ that can be attached to robotic hands like a glove, allowing robots to detect information about their surroundings in a manner similar to humans.
Tiny human hearts grown in pig embryos for the first time
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01854-x
Scientists are developing human–animal chimaeras grow human cells in animal embryos, with the aim of one day generating animals with human organs that can be transplanted into people.
Wafer-thin, shapeshifting perovskites can help make efficient renewable energy sources
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/shapeshifting-perovskites-make-efficient-leds
The perovskites can be manipulated at the molecular level.
Chinese firm boosts humanoid, legged robot development with game-changer suite
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/chinese-firm-boosts-humanoid-robot-development
The new suite provides developers with structured guidance across key areas of robotics, from modular architecture design to multimodal control systems.
The ‘attention equation’: Winning the right battles for consumer attention
CQ (commercial quotient) + AQ (attention quotient) = $/hour viewed. Also read https://www.ronimmink.com/branding-as-a-shortcut-to-capture-attention/
The Gentle Singularity
https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence. What makes this singularity "gentle" is its deceptive normalcy. People still walk their dogs, drink their coffee, and swipe through social media. But under the hood, AI is reshaping how work gets done
You are the upgrade
You can order my latest book about books about AI, “You are the upgrade, augmented natural intelligence as the only way forward” here.
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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