Mind candy 28 July 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 28 July 2022?

The topics to think about (and discuss in your company) are Apple vs Facebook, from linear to circular, 10 tech trends, making robots dream, bionics, mind reading helmets, cyborgs, electric nanomotors, plastic, optoelectronics and Singapore’s scenario planning.

Develop a number of scenarios around circularity. It is coming.

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• Zuckerberg says Meta and Apple are in ‘very deep, philosophical competition’ to build the metaverse

https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/26/23279478/meta-apple-mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-competition?

Open or closed. Facebook or Apple?

• Switch to a circular economy could protect the environment while generating more value

https://phys.org/news/2022-07-circular-economy-environment.html

In 1924, a cartel of lightbulb manufacturers including General Electric and Philips agreed to artificially limit the lifespan of their products to about 1,000 hours, down from 2,500. The scandal, revealed decades later, came to epitomize the linear consumption model of making, consuming, and then discarding products that took hold during the Industrial Revolution and has been dominant ever since.

• Here are the top 10 trends in tech

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/top-10-trends-in-tech

Automation, virtualisation, connectivity, distributed infrastructure, next gen computing, applied AI, programming, trust architecture, the bio revolution, next gen materials and cleantech

• DayDreamer: An algorithm to quickly teach robots new behaviors in the real world

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-daydreamer-algorithm-quickly-robots-behaviors.html?

Dreamer allows robots to "imagine" future representations instead of processing raw sensory inputs

• A Startup Is 3D Printing Bionic Arms for Ukrainians Injured in Conflict

https://singularityhub.com/2022/07/27/a-startup-is-3d-printing-bionic-arms-for-ukrainians-injured-in-conflict/?

An illustration of what exponential effects can do.

• UK's next-gen fighter jet has a groundbreaking ‘mind-reading’ helmet

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/uk-fighter-mind-reading-helmet

Artificial intelligence systems are also expected to take over the control of the weapons once they are fired by the pilot and ensure that they reach their intended targets. Not to forget the presence of drone swarms, which will be a commonality when the Tempest fighters take to the skies.

• The Man Who Would Be a Machine

https://www.newyorker.com/news/afterword/the-man-who-would-be-a-machine?

In October, 2019, Peter Scott-Morgan (1958-2022) announced that he had evolved from Peter 1.0 to Peter 2.

• First electric nanomotor made from DNA material

https://nano-magazine.com/news/2022/7/22/first-electric-nanomotor-made-from-dna-material-1?

A research team has succeeded for the first time in producing a molecular electric motor using the DNA origami method. The tiny machine made of genetic material self-assembles and converts electrical energy into kinetic energy.

• Strong plastic made from waste biomass degrades into sugar

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2022/07/strong-plastic-made-from-waste-biomass-degrades-into-sugar/?

The process is simple and scalable, and uses an inexpensive mineral acid as the catalyst

• Restoring hearing with beams of light

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cochlear-implant?

Gene therapy and optoelectronics could radically upgrade hearing for millions of people

• Unlocking potential of clean energy technologies with better regulation

https://www.eco-business.com/news/unlocking-potential-of-clean-energy-technologies-with-better-regulation/?

Singapore?has developed 2050 scenarios about the use of nuclear fusion, geothermal and clean hydrogen power.