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The Trends Scorecard: Energy & Utilities - What I Predicted, and What Actually Happened

"The future of energy was never about a bigger smokestack or more coal. It was always about the panel on your roof and the battery in your garage." — Futurist Jim Carroll This is part of my Trends Scorecard series, where I dig back through everything I have said

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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.

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Megatrend #19 - Temporal Commerce

For decades, capital and then information were the most prized and contested resources. Today, a new asset has emerged as the ultimate measure of value: time.