Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

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

Disruption

CEO's: You suffer from delusions.

Return-to-office mandates are built on a dangerous misassumption: that the best people will simply comply. They won't.

CEO's: You suffer from delusions.

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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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30 Megatrends

Megatrend #21 - Career Obsolescence and Creation

Megatrend #21 - Career Obsolescence and Creation

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

30 Megatrends

Megatrend #20 — Physical-Digital Retail Integration

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.

Acceleration

Megatrend #19 - Temporal Commerce

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.

30 Megatrends

Megatrend #18 - Compressed Innovation Cycles

Megatrend #18 - Compressed Innovation Cycles

The ability to continuously reinvent your value proposition is no longer optional; it is survival.

30 Megatrends

Megatrend #17 — Micro-Autonomous Systems

Megatrend #17 — Micro-Autonomous Systems

What's it all about? Tiny robots and drones operating in coordinated swarms, creating intelligent solutions to complex problems

30 Megatrends

Megatrend #16 — New Materials Science

Megatrend #16 — New Materials Science

We are experiencing unprecedented innovation in physical materials, everything from self-healing surfaces to programmable matter.

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