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Scenario prompt 4 July 2025
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Scenario prompt 4 July 2025
Have a great weekend.
The scenario prompts for the weekend are amphibious housing, merging human brains, VTubers, intrapreneurship, a pocket-sized 3D printer, agriculture, solar powered sponges, and you are the upgrade
These Lego-like homes are designed to float in floods
https://www.fastcompany.com/91362156/these-lego-like-homes-are-designed-to-float-in-floods
Amphibious housing can move with rising water, which lets people build in areas with high flood risk.
Scientists Merged 3 Human Brains by Thought Alone
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a65259558/brain-to-brain-communication/
Vulcan mind meld, anyone?
AI virtual personality YouTubers, or ‘VTubers,’ are earning millions
As AI-generated content becomes more common online, concerns about its impact are growing, especially as it becomes easier to generate convincing but entirely AI-fabricated videos.
Creativity Tops the List - Office Chatani Reveals Key Traits of Intrapreneurs in Major Japanese Corporations
Large companies have a strong desire for individuals willing to go against the existing business structure and culture and generate new value within the company.
MIT student builds pocket-sized 3D printer that uses light to create objects in secs
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/mit-pocket-sized-3d-printer
The system consists of only a single millimeter-scale photonic chip without any moving parts.
The quiet trends reshaping ag: a field guide for builders, backers, and business leaders
Ag innovation is shifting toward the friction points where systems collide: capital, asset ownership, diet, climate instability, supply chains, and cross-sector adjacencies.
Spongy material and the sun's power remove salt from seawater
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-07-spongy-material-sun-power-salt.html
Most of Earth's water is in the oceans and too salty to drink. Desalination plants can make seawater drinkable, but they require large amounts of energy.
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.