Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

Thoughts, stories and ideas about tomorrow from Futurist Jim Carroll. Sent each workday since August 2016.

2026

26 Principles for 2026: #4 Anticipatory Intelligence

You need to do a better job of understanding what comes next, and what you need to know about it, long before you have to do anything about it!

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Megatrend #16 — New Materials Science

We are experiencing unprecedented innovation in physical materials, everything from self-healing surfaces to programmable matter.

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Megatrend #15–24 Hour Farming and the Reinvention of Agriculture

When a strawberry's taste profile can be programmed and replicated in Dubai to be identical to one grown in Japan, it transitions from a unique agricultural good to a high-tech, replicable commodity.

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Megatrend #14 - Mass Customization Systems

Mass customization is not the result of a single breakthrough but rather the convergence of a suite of advanced technologies.

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Megatrend #13 — Brain & Cognitive Health

We may live longer and healthier, but our minds might not be.

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Megatrend 12 : Personalized, Precision Medicine

We are combining what we might call 'next-generation genomic sequencing', AI, and CRISPR gene editing, to come up with a new health paradigm that involves 'fixing people before they are sick rather than after.'

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