Jim Carroll

"Innovation thrives in the building of sandcastles!" - Futurist Jim Carroll That's me in the photo above, taken yesterday during a sandcastle-building competition in Costa Rica. Later this morning, I'll keynote the National Association of Landscape Professionals leadership forum. Naturally, my attention was drawn

"Science always has the last word!" - Futurist Jim Carrol My wife is a much smarter person than I am, always suggesting that I should stay away from some of the controversial topics of the day. But I'm not very smart. As a futurist, it'

"It's easy to embrace mediocrity, but harder still to resist its comfortable embrace!" - Futurist Jim Carroll For someone who loves to rush into a project, the process of seeing a project through to completion can be sometimes maddening. With that in mind, my wife and

"Never forget that yesterday's assumptions are today's vulnerabilities!" - Futurist Jim Carroll It was a wild day for AI yesterday. And it was also a wild day for stocks. The two are interrelated. You might have noticed that tech stocks took a beating. All

"Fictional utopias are usually just that!" - Futurist Jim Carroll We are living in the era of grand, sweeping tech utopian visions promoted by the technology titans of our time. Yesterday, this post by Marc Andreessen - that AI would eventually lead to some sort of future nirvana

"Broken trust? Broken futures." - Futurist Jim Carroll I didn't like season one. I sure as heck am not enjoying season 2. Anyway, while I'm doing my damndest to try to avoid the news, my trend news tracking service did bring up these comments