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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30 Megatrends

Megatrend #10 - Predictive and Preventative Healthcare

We are moving from fixing people after they are sick to knowing what they will become sick with and acting accordingly.

Success

Tall Poppies

It's said that we all instinctively measure ourselves against others, and we get pissed off - resentful - when we don't measure up.

30 Megatrends

Megatrend #9 — Climate-Positive Technologies

Long-game proponents know, though, that megatrends always outlast the bombast, particularly at a global scale

30 Megatrends

Megatrend #8 - The Circular Economy

How big an opportunity is it? Pretty big - estimates going from $339 billion in 2022 to $8 to 10 trillion by 2035!

Failure

July 4

Many of the organizations I found myself spending time with now find themselves sliding back instead of moving forward

30 Megatrends

Megatrend #7 - Energy Decentralization

"The power plant of the future isn't a smokestack. It's all around your home." - Futurist Jim Carroll The global energy grid is in the midst of its most profound transformation in a century. For decades, our model has been simple: massive, centralized power