A Question About Pond Algae Just Won a Nobel Prize
A small question about pond algae became the 2026 Nobel Prize for optogenetics. Thirty years from pond to patient, and what it says about foresight.
A small question about pond algae became the 2026 Nobel Prize for optogenetics. Thirty years from pond to patient, and what it says about foresight.
Two signals from this week’s science — Neanderthal language DNA and a longevity gene transferred from naked mole rats to mice — point toward something larger: the medicine is moving, and we are barely noticing.
Morris Misel Business Futurist | Foresight Strategist If you’ve read this far, something probably connected. Maybe it put words to something you’d been sensing but couldn’t quite land. Maybe it made something complicated feel clearer. Maybe it unsettled a position you thought you’d settled. Good. That’s where this work lives. Not forecasting. Not scenarios at […]
Morris Misel Business Futurist | Foresight Strategist If you’ve read this far, something probably connected. Maybe it put words to something you’d been sensing but couldn’t quite land. Maybe it made something complicated feel clearer. Maybe it unsettled a position you thought you’d settled. Good. That’s where this work lives. Not forecasting. Not scenarios at […]