Mind candy 12 August 2022

You can't predict the future, but you can make smart business decisions today by understanding the latest technology and business trends.

From my dashboard of 12 August 2022?

The topics to think about (and discuss in your company) are restorative business models, hydrogen, climate adaption, meat tax, decentralised science, low-code AR, social media and teenagers, travelling at near speed of light, adulteration (food), soft robots, pig based cornea, programmable plants, nanogenerators, triboelectrics and swarms of mini robots digging tunnels.

Meat tax Is just one idea, and you can now take it that anything is possible to tackle climate change. All bets are off. What other regulations can you expect, and how will they impact your business?

Climate

• Sustainability is the wrong goal for businesses that care about climate change

https://qz.com/sustainability-is-the-wrong-goal-for-businesses-that-ca-1849399383

We are moving from sustainable to restorative. How restorative is your business model?

• Hydrogen: The rising trend in energy transformation

https://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/op-ed/hydrogen-the-rising-trend-in-energy-transformation

The global energy system is collapsing due to the use of fossil fuels. In order to prevent climate disaster, a global energy transition should be accelerated immediately

• It’s Time to Invest in Climate Adaptation

https://hbr.org/2022/08/its-time-to-invest-in-climate-adaptation?

Climate?adaptation?— helping people, animals, and plants to survive despite rising climate volatility — should be an urgent priority.

• A meat tax is probably inevitable – here’s how it could?work

https://theconversation.com/a-meat-tax-is-probably-inevitable-heres-how-it-could-work-188023?

Rearing livestock and growing crops to feed them has destroyed more tropical forest and killed more wildlife than any other industry.

Citizen development

• Decentralized science is poised to disrupt… well, everything

https://neo.life/2022/08/decentralized-science-is-poised-to-disrupt-well-everything/?

How DeSci, DAOs, and NFTs will change research funding, intellectual property, and collaboration.

• As AR matures, Blippar makes its creation tool free to use

https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/entertainment/blippar-blippbuilder-free?

It’s a sign of AR maturing, with commercial clients increasingly looking for more complex experiences that go beyond simple face filters.

Trends

Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social-media-and-technology-2022/?

TikTok, Facebook, behaviour and demographics. Hard and soft trends?

Technology

• 'Helical Engine' could reach 99% the speed of light, NASA scientists says

https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/helical-engine-could-reach-99-the-speed-of-light-nasa-scientists-says?

Imagine the possibilities

• How next-gen technology in agriculture can make food safer in India

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/08/how-next-gen-technology-can-make-food-safer-in-india/?

One in every five foods (grains, milk, pulses, spices and oil seeds) in India is adulterated. Adulterated food is made impure by the addition of an inferior substance, especially to prepare for sale by substituting more valuable ingredients for less valuable ones

• A flexible, rod-driven soft robot for biomedical applications

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-08-flexible-rod-driven-soft-robot-biomedical.html?

A well-balanced performance in terms of dexterity, accuracy, and payload could have great potential in soft robot applications.

• Bioengineered cornea restores sight to the blind and visually impaired

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-08-bioengineered-cornea-sight-visually-impaired.html?

Researchers and entrepreneurs have developed an implant made of collagen protein from pig's skin, which resembles the human cornea.

• Synthetic genetic circuits as a means of reprogramming plant roots

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo4326?

Programmable plants?

• Scientists improve the power output of triboelectric nanogenerators with carbon particles

https://nano-magazine.com/news/2022/8/10/scientists-improve-the-power-output-of-triboelectric-nanogenerators-with-carbon-particles?

Triboelectric occurs as a result of charge build-up whenever two dissimilar materials (such as our body and the fabric) come in contact with each other.

• Researchers create flow-driven rotors at the nanoscale

https://nano-magazine.com/news/2022/8/9/researchers-create-flow-driven-rotors-at-the-nanoscale?

Researchers have constructed the smallest flow-driven motors in the world. Inspired by iconic Dutch windmills and biological motor proteins, they created a self-configuring, flow-driven rotor from DNA that converts energy from an electrical or salt gradient into useful mechanical work.

• Swarms of Mini Robots Could Dig the Tunnels of the Future

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/future-of-digging-tunnels?

The underground excavation industry is exploring mini robots, plasma torches, and superheated gas to replace the massive boring machines now in use.