Mind candy 2 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 2 August 2022

The topics to think about (and discuss in your company) are intrapreneurship, the military, circular, fusion, portable reactors, solar, brain computing, optics, carbon-based nanomaterials and nano bodies that can go through the brain barrier and untangle proteins.

Consider a business model based on abundance (see articles about solar, fusion and nuclear). Read https://www.ronimmink.com/design-a-business-model-based-on-abundance/

Strategy

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Intrapreneurship

Past, present, and future for corporate entrepreneurship & intrapreneurs

https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/past-present-and-future-for-corporate-entrepreneurship-and-intrapreneurs-dc99497fadc2

337 billion dollars. According to Gartner, this is how big the market for corporate entrepreneurship and intrapreneurs is at the moment, and it will only keep getting bigger. Buy?https://www.ronimmink.com/product/building-the-in-company-change-muscle-intrapreneurship-innovation-transformation-strategy/

Metaverse

The U.S. Army, not Meta, is building the metaverse

https://venturebeat.com/2022/07/31/the-u-s-army-not-meta-is-building-the-metaverse/?

In terms of industry progress towards the cloud-supported, scalable metaverse, no organization has come further than the U.S. Army.?

Circular

• Circular models have growing appeal for investors

https://recyclinginternational.com/business/circular-models-have-growing-appeal-for-investors/50125/

Investment in circular economy business models in the UK has tripled in volume over the past three years

Energy

• Jenga-playing energy sector robot

https://www.engineerlive.com/content/jenga-playing-energy-sector-robot

The development of ‘self-recovering’ robots to go where humans can’t, is key to making fusion energy a safe, sustainable, low-carbon energy source for generations to come.?

• A new era in nuclear energy: US nuclear regulator approves the first modular reactor design

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/nuclear-energy-us-nuclear-regulator-first-modular-reactor?

These reactors can be transported and then installed at power generation sites.

• US Army’s solar-powered drone is setting new records every day

https://www.freethink.com/technology/solar-powered-drone?

The US Army has been flying a skeletal solar-powered drone for more than 40 days straight — breaking a world record and foreshadowing the future of military surveillance.

Computing

• MIT Researchers Create Artificial Synapses 10,000x Faster Than Biological Ones

https://singularityhub.com/2022/08/01/mit-researchers-created-artificial-synapses-10000x-faster-than-biological-ones/?

Researchers have been trying to build artificial synapses for years in the hope of getting close to the unrivalled computational performance of the human brain.?

• New optical switch could lead to ultrafast all-optical signal processing

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-optical-ultrafast-all-optical.html?

The field of optics has the potential to revolutionize computing by doing more, at faster speeds, and with less power.

Nano

• Turning Fish Waste Into Quality Carbon-Based Nanomaterial

https://scienceblog.com/532495/turning-fish-waste-into-quality-carbon-based-nanomaterial/?

Thanks to their low toxicity, chemical stability, and remarkable electrical and optical properties, carbon-based nanomaterials are finding more and more applications across electronics, energy conversion and storage, catalysis, and biomedicine.

• Nanobody busts into brain cells to unclump proteins

https://www.futurity.org/nanobody-brain-cells-proteins-2775332-2/

Researchers have developed a nanobody that can get through the tough exterior of mouse brain cells and untangle misshapen proteins that lead to Parkinson’s disease, Lewy body dementia, and other neurocognitive disorders.