Mind candy 15 December 2021
Ron Immink
I empower people by crafting compelling visions for the future, driving the creation of innovative business models, boosting productivity, and enhancing profitability. Advisor, mentor, author and speaker.
To keep my clients up to date and help them with strategy and scenario planning,?I follow a large number of information feeds.??These are my highlights of 15 December 2021. It is designed to make you think and wonder. This feed is random. It can be tailored to your own organisation and help you develop a completely different perspective. Making you a?perception pioneer, which is good for your career (that rhymes).
2021 turning point: Reinvention and opportunity in the economy of the future
The pandemic has reset the ways we live, work, and do business, accelerating some long-term shifts and setting new changes in motion.
Predicting the Future with Bayes’?Theorem
Probabilities versus absolutes. Bayes’ theorem is an accessible way of integrating probability thinking into our lives.
When Is a New Tech?‘Ahead of Its Time’ — Or Just Doomed?
The question: is this a genuinely useful new thing? Or is it just some expensive prototype, a pipe dream that’ll never take off?
Tech bro thinks he’s close to cheating death
Ageing is a disease that humans can fight with pharmaceuticals.?
Self-Driving Microscopes to Navigate the Nanoscale
One promising area of research in which deep learning is likely to make its mark is (automated) microscopy.
FBI Warns of Cuba Ransomware Attacks on Critical Infrastructure
A Cuban gang managed to compromise at least 49 entities in the government, healthcare, financial, information technology, and manufacturing sectors.
Betting is the next battleground in sports streaming
Disney is evidence that betting could be the next streaming battleground for any company that owns a live sports service.?
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Canadian facility plans to produce fuel from thin air
The plant will use Carbon Engineering’s Direct Air Capture and Air to Fuels technologies to create the fuel.
New Brain Maps Can Predict Behaviors
Don’t expect a complete wiring diagram for a human brain anytime soon, however, because it’s technically infeasible: Lichtman points out that the zettabyte of data involved would be equivalent to a significant chunk of the entire world’s stored content today. Your brain is amazing.
Can Science Fiction Help Solve Our Biggest Problems?
Some companies use SF writers to develop scenarios for their strategy development.?
A stable sense of self is rooted in the lungs, heart and gut
Old wisdom such as trust your guts’ and follow your heart is proven by science. Study the Lindy effect.
A good life is painful
Psychologist Paul Bloom on the importance of suffering, the shortcomings of hedonism, and why he would never plug into the Matrix.
A circular strategy with real value
The one-way linear model of production, which we are used to, introduced the concept of waste. Due to inefficiencies in the process we tolerate producing and storing byproducts which serve no purpose and are at least costly and at most harmful.On the other hand, the principles of circular economy introduce a closed loop cycle.
14 times sustainability was sort of funny in?2021
Watch for the treehouse face mask.
Surprised?
If these trends are relevant to your business and if they come as a surprise,?schedule a call. I will explain?perception pioneering?and how it will benefit you and your company.
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom from Nizam College at Hyderabad Public School
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