Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

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

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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Tall Poppies

Tall Poppies

It's said that we all instinctively measure ourselves against others, and we get pissed off - resentful - when we don't measure up.

Megatrend #9 — Climate-Positive Technologies

Megatrend #9 — Climate-Positive Technologies

Long-game proponents know, though, that megatrends always outlast the bombast, particularly at a global scale

Megatrend #8 - The Circular Economy

Megatrend #8 - The Circular Economy

How big an opportunity is it? Pretty big - estimates going from $339 billion in 2022 to $8 to 10 trillion by 2035!

July 4

July 4

Many of the organizations I found myself spending time with now find themselves sliding back instead of moving forward

Megatrend #7 - Energy Decentralization

Megatrend #7 - Energy Decentralization

"The power plant of the future isn't a smokestack. It's all around your home." - Futurist Jim Carroll The global energy grid is in the midst of its most profound transformation in a century. For decades, our model has been simple: massive, centralized power

Megatrend #6 - The Inevitability of Electrification

Megatrend #6 - The Inevitability of Electrification

"The global power grid is being rewired. You can either argue about the old outlets or help connect the new ones."- Futurist Jim Carroll The massive shift from carbon combustion to electric power is transforming transportation, infrastructure, and energy supply chains. This is not a gradual transition

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