Mind candy 20 June 2022

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

Dashboard 20 June 2022?

The topics to think about (and discuss in your company) are techno-optimism, abundance mindset, consultant, printing houses, meta-materials, microfluidics, thermoelectric ink, hydrogen converting bacteria, carbon farming, hyper-automation and aliens

My key message is that your perspective (optimistic or pessimistic) frames everything.?

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Perspective

• How to be a techno-optimist

https://bigthink.com/the-future/techno-optimism/

Technology makes us less interactive, less happy — less human, even. And yet, most people can’t wait to get a new smartphone, watch a new cinematic technique, or drive a faster, cheaper, greener car.

• An abundance mindset during uncertain times

https://www.diamandis.com/blog/an-abundance-mindset-during-uncertain-times

The incredible news today, as compared to even a few decades ago, is that exponential technologies are giving each of us unparalleled access to knowledge, experts, and global communications at little-to-no cost.

Consultants

4 Ways Hucksters, Gurus And Consultants Fool Us (And Usually Themselves Too)

https://digitaltonto.com/2022/4-ways-hucksters-gurus-and-consultants-fool-us-and-usually-themselves/

In the real world, there are no “sure things,” and don’t let hucksters, gurus and consultants tell you any different.

3D printing

• Alquist Says It Will 3D Print 200 Houses in a Small Virginia Town

https://singularityhub.com/2022/06/16/200-3d-printed-houses-are-going-up-in-virginia/?

Signs of things to come?

• All-in-one 3D printing method builds robots in one single step

https://www.inceptivemind.com/ucla-3d-printing-method-builds-robots-one-single-step/25138/?

The new technology enabled the entire mechanical and electronic systems needed to operate a robot to be manufactured all at once by a new type of 3D printing process for engineered active materials with multiple functions, or ‘metamaterials

Microfluidics

How to think like a futurist: Microfluidics

https://hpmegatrends.com/how-to-think-like-a-futurist-microfluidics-9c6387856a11

Due to the rising demand for point-of-care diagnostics and other microfluidics technologies, the global microfluidics market is expected to be worth?$43 billion?by 2027

Energy

• Thermoelectric ink coating could enable devices powered by heat

https://www.inceptivemind.com/thermoelectric-ink-coating-enable-devices-powered-heat/25130/?

The coating can be applied to any surface that dissipates heat to generate electrical power

• A groundbreaking solution could unleash our hydrogen future

https://www.freethink.com/environment/hydrogen-fuel

Researchers are studying a bacteria that inhabits the deep ocean. To gain the energy it requires, this organism carries an enzyme that catalyses the rapid conversion of H2 and CO2 into formic acid.?

Carbon farming

The hype behind carbon farming comes down to earth

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2022/06/the-hype-behind-carbon-farming-comes-down-to-earth/?

Is the race to turn farms into carbon banks driven by science, or disaster capitalism?

Hyperautomation

AI is driving ‘hyperautomation’ and autonomous factory systems

https://venturebeat.com/2022/06/16/ai-is-driving-hyperautomation-and-autonomous-factory-systems/?

Hyperautomation has shifted from an option to a condition of survival.

Aliens

First signs of alien life? China's FAST telescope may have detected something

https://interestingengineering.com/first-signs-of-alien-life-chinas-fast-telescope?

A?report?by the state-backed?Science and Technology Daily, which was recently deleted,?stated that its giant Sky Eye telescope may have picked up hints of alien civilizations.