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: #5 Knowledge Velocity

If you are relying on what you already know, i.e, with your past degree, your decade of experience, to carry you through 2026, you are driving on fumes. Your battery is empty, your mind is out of gas, and you'll soon hit the limit of where you can go.

26 Principles for 2026: #5 Knowledge Velocity

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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

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!

Dancing in the Rain Book

Choosing to Dance

Choosing to Dance

There is a trap in this thinking: the new normal won't be the same as the old normal. While you are busy waiting to get back to it, 'it' will have changed.

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