Light weekend reading; eyes, quantum collapse, and photon emission
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. If you need help with developing these prompts, you can book a free appointment here. If you want me to speak at your event, contact me at [email protected]
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 17 January 2025
Todays prompts are Apple, transition, DNA nanobots, bionic hands, AI real-time translators, neurobionics, solar in space, nano muscles, and the eye as a quantum interface.
Light weekend reading; eyes, quantum collapse, and photon emission.
Apple is working on possible Future Vision-Related Headsets that will provide Tunable Lenses and offer new Sensors
Apple's invention relates to future HMDs that may include a head-mounted support structure, a lens module coupled to the head-mounted support structure and comprising a catadioptric lens and a tunable lens, and a display that is viewable through the lens module.
The ROI of transition: the new driver of corporate sustainability agendas
New metrics are required to ensure investments are future-proof, such as carbon intensity, water usage, biodiversity impact, and agricultural resilience.
DNA Nanorobots Unlock New Frontiers in Targeted Drug Delivery
Scientists develop DNA nanorobots capable of modifying artificial cells.
Bionic hand that moves with thought, restores touch sensation unveiled
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Researchers utilized overlapping sensory regions in the brain to simulate sensations that appeared to glide across the hand.
Meta’s New AI Translates Speech in Real Time Across More Than 100 Languages
It's accurate and nearly as fast as expert human interpreters.
This MIT spinout wants to spool hair-thin fibers into patients’ brains
NeuroBionics aims to pipe what it has developed — bioelectric fibers the width of a human hair — through blood vessels in the brain using a procedure similar to a stent placement to deliver neuromodulation therapy.
China plans to build enormous solar array in space — and it could collect more energy in a year than 'all the oil on Earth’
Chinese scientists have announced a plan to build an enormous, 0.6 mile (1 kilometer) wide solar power station in space that will beam continuous energy back to Earth via microwaves.
Artificial motors mimic muscle proteins, opening new paths in nanotech
Just like the proteins in our muscles, which convert chemical energy into power to allow us to perform daily tasks, these tiny rotary motors use chemical energy to generate force, store energy, and perform tasks in a similar way.
The Torus of Perception
The eye’s structure appears not as a mere accident of evolution, but as an implementation of a fundamental information-processing principle shared across physics. The eye, it seems, is not just a window to the soul, but a window into the fundamental patterns by which reality itself comes into being.