Combining virtual and real intelligence....
Ron Immink
I empower innovative, purpose driven companies by crafting compelling visions for the future. Make them more compelling for all stakeholders. Strategist, positive futurist, coach, advisor, mentor, author and speaker.
Mind candy are prompts to help you to keep up to date, develop strategic responses to trends and train your change muscle, making you more resilient and agile for the future.
How to use the prompts
Become a trend watcher yourself. Use these prompts to explore their relevance, assess opportunities and threats, and analyse timelines and impacts on your organisation. Consider multiple possible futures across varying time horizons—1, 3, 5, and 10 years.
Scenario prompts 26 March 2025
Todays prompts are solar reactors, uncommon growth, digital media trends, electronics-free robots, single-molecule detection, the next knowledge revolution, insect poop, human “bodyoids, combining virtual and real intelligence, and gene editing.
Combining virtual and real intelligence....
US scientists create jet fuel from sunlight making carbon-free aviation reality
This reactor not only captures solar heat but uses it to drive chemical reactions necessary to create jet fuel.
Defining Uncommon Growth
Uncommon Growth is high-impact, sustainable growth that is faster, smarter, more human and more actionable—requiring organizations to increase speed to market while building the right capabilities, culture and business models to outpace disruption and drive lasting impact.
2025 Digital Media Trends: Social platforms are becoming a dominant force in media and entertainment
While studios and streaming providers are busy competing with each other, tougher competition is coming from social video platforms that are hyperscale and hyper-capitalized
Electronics-free robots can walk right off the 3D-printer
This design approach is not only robust, it is also cheap—each robot costs about $20 to manufacture.
Ultra-precision sensor technology developed for single-molecule detection
This technology has significant potential, particularly for accurate analyses at the single-molecule level and in various environmental and medical diagnostic applications.
Technology Has Shaped Human Knowledge for Centuries. Generative AI Is Set to Transform It Yet Again.
Today, we stand on the brink of the next knowledge revolution. It is one as big as—if not more so—the invention of the printing press or the dawning of the digital age.
The Growing Allure of Insect Poop
Bugs could connect the ends of the food system by eating waste and creating fertilizer
Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine
Human “bodyoids” could reduce animal testing, improve drug development, and alleviate organ shortages. Recent advances in biotechnology now provide a pathway to producing living human bodies without the neural components that allow us to think, be aware, or feel pain.
Decoding Dassault’s 3D Universes jargon: combining virtual and real intelligence
It represents a fundamental shift from static digital twins to an AI-powered, generative intelligence ecosystem. The branding itself—3D UNIVERSES instead of “3D Universes”—signals a new paradigm where virtual and real (V+R) are seamlessly integrated, enabling continuous learning, automation, and adaptability across product lifecycles.
New CRISPR tool enables more seamless gene editing — and improved disease modeling
More technology abstraction in gene editing.