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Is it getting weird?
2 min readJul 4, 2022
Some reflections on how science fiction is becoming science fact very fast (and maybe too fast).
Weird
In the last week, the mind-candy got really weird:
- Metasurfaces Open the Door to Telekinesis and Telepathy With Technology https://singularityhub.com/2022/06/28/in-two-new-studies-metasurfaces-open-the-door-to-telekinesis-and-telepathy/? Changing objects with the mind has long been a trope in science fiction. Now, thanks to metasurfaces, two studies just showed that it’s potentially possible
- If we store the DNA memory of all the animals we were before we became human what does that mean for augmentation in the future? Read https://www.ronimmink.com/dawn-new-everything-journey-virtual-reality-vr/. It is called the phylogenetic tree.
- Combine a few things. Implants, microbiome, programmable bacteria and Minority report. Whatever you come up with will happen. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mind-candy-1-july-2022-ron-immink/
Or I am going weird (or both)? No need to answer that question. But please share anythingyou find weird and we can create a special weird-candy edition together for the summer.
100 days planning
Maybe the best way to deal with this onslaught of VUCA or BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear and Incomprehensible), is to only focus on 100 days max. We just finished our first batch of clients, here are some of the lessons.
