Mind candy 15 July 2022

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

Dashboard 15 July 2022?

The topics to think about (and discuss in your company) are psychedelics, supply chains, the value of nature, sovereign debt and nature, strain-sensing skin, augmented reality, octopus-inspired gloves, perpetual motion (ish), lab-grown miniature hearts, pet-tech and soul uploading.

The question to ponder is whether fundamental economic models are shifting. Particularly when nature and climate impact will be taken into account. Will your business model survive?

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Strategy

7 ways psychedelics impact creative thinking

https://neo.life/2022/07/7-ways-psychedelics-impact-creative-thinking/?

Psychedelics and strategy development?

Sustainability

• The trend of sustainable transformation among supply chain

https://sustainabilitymag.com/supply-chain-sustainability/the-trend-of-sustainable-transformation-among-supply-chain

According to McKinsey & Company, supply chains account for over 90% of a company’s environmental impact.

• More than dollars: mega-review finds 50 ways to value nature

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01930-6?

Assessing the environment in purely monetary terms can harm people and the planet.

• Climate change risks to sovereign debt: How integrated assessment models inform our understanding

https://voxeu.org/article/climate-change-risks-sovereign-debt?

Evidence suggests that sovereign debt markets are taking climate effects into account in pricing, creating the potential for a climate-debt doom loop

Technology

• Strain-sensing smart skin ready to deploy

https://phys.org/news/2022-07-strain-sensing-smart-skin-ready-deploy.html?

A strain-sensing smart skin developed at Rice University uses very small structures, carbon nanotubes, to monitor and detect damage in large structures

• Huge milestone as human subject wears augmented reality contact lens for first time

https://bigthink.com/the-future/augmented-reality-ar-milestone-wearable-contacts/?

We will look back at the years when people walked down the street, necks bent, staring down at little screens in their hands as an absurdly primitive way to interact with information

• Octopus-inspired glove securely grab objects underwater

https://www.inceptivemind.com/octopus-inspired-glove-securely-grab-objects-underwater/25437/

The glove features rubber?suckers ?and a sophisticated sensing capability that mimic the sea creature’s unique muscular and nervous systems.

• The world's 'most durable' E-motor runs continuously at over 90% peak output

https://interestingengineering.com/the-worlds-most-durable-e-motor-runs-continuously-at-over-90-peak-output?

Close to perpetual motion?

• Engineers Have Grown a Major Piece of The Human Heart in Miniature, And It Beats

https://www.sciencealert.com/engineers-have-grown-a-major-piece-of-the-heart-in-miniature-and-it-beats?

Researchers reverse-engineered a millimeter-long (0.04 inches) vessel that not only beats like the real deal, but pumps fluid just like the muscular exit-chamber of a human embryo's heart.

Words

• Is the pet sector recession-proof?

https://sifted.eu/articles/pet-tech-industry-recession-brnd/

I learned a new word. Pet-tech.

• Somnium Space wants you to live forever in the metaverse

https://futureparty.com/stories/Somnium-Space-After-Death-Live-Forever?

The words used in the article are “soul upload”.