Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

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

2025

Difficult Decisions

Have you noticed the signals coming out that in the US, people aren't thinking that the economy is as rosy as they thought?

Difficult Decisions

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Success

Momentum

Momentum

"Your moment is right now. Are you ready?"

Creativity

Waste More Time!

Waste More Time!

"Invest in your creative capital. You'll see a return on your imagination!"

Big Future

The Reality of Trends

The Reality of Trends

"One person's skepticism is another person's gold!"

Exponential change

Exponential Change

Exponential Change

"Are you ready for the inconceivable to become conceivable?"

Artificial Intelligence

Bend Your Mind

Bend Your Mind

Make your imagination matter more."

Artificial Intelligence

AI and the Peak of Inflated Expectations.

AI and the Peak of Inflated Expectations.

"A strategy based on hype isn't a strategy. It's a tombstone for cash"

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Creativity

Accelerating Creativity

Accelerating Creativity

I continue to learn new skills, exploring the depths of opportunity and challenge with all the new technologies that surround us

Creativity

Apple is Delisted

Apple is Delisted

"Slow innovation, timid ideas, process over imagination, small-minded thinking, diminished ambition: these are the signs of an abandoned future."- Futurist Jim Carroll So Apple had their big developer conference the other day. This is the event where they lay out their plans for the coming year and

Volatility

Delayed Failure Recognition

Delayed Failure Recognition

So the question on most people's minds is - when will all of this end?

Acceleration

Compound Knowledge

Compound Knowledge

You should know that you don't know what you need to know. You should know that you need to know it. And then, set out to know it.

Volatility

About this Recession

About this Recession

Discussions I have with people, show all the other warning signs - projects being postponed, capital budgets being curtailed, strategic planning sessions being canceled.

Books

Close the Gap

Close the Gap

If you don't have what it takes, do what it takes to get to what it takes!

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