Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

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

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I'm a guy who, at my age, is in pretty decent physical shape and always VERY active - and now the most important thing I can do is to be intelligently inactive.

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Megatrend #25 - Urban Reimagination

Cities are not just growing, they are evolving into integrated systems for food, energy, transportation, and living that function very differently from urban environments.

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Megatrend #24 - The Five-Generation Society

We are, globally, in the midst of an unprecedented demographic shift.

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Megatrend #23 - Generational Value Shifts

"They're not like us." That's the common refrain from most baby boomers and many senior executives today. And that much is true.

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Megatrend #22 - Cross-Disciplinary Specialists

The future is hybrid! You don't need to know much anymore - you just need to know how to know it! Not only that, but you need to know how to know many different things.

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Megatrend #21 - Career Obsolescence and Creation

The trend is being accelerated to a ridiculous speed as the impact of AI takes hold.

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Megatrend #20 — Physical-Digital Retail Integration

Physical retail spaces are being reimagined as dynamic experience centers, where the primary objective is to forge deep, emotional connections with consumers.