Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration

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

Disrupting the Disruptors

What do you do if your industry is moving so fast that the competition seems to have an insurmountable advantage? What if they seem to own the disruption game? Disrupt them instead.

Disrupting the Disruptors
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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

Canada Day 2025

Canada Day 2025

In a wild year that defied all logic, we stand strong and free, proud of who we are, taking pride in what makes us tick and resolute in defense of the human decency that defines us.

Megatrend #5 — Knowledge Acceleration

Megatrend #5 — Knowledge Acceleration

There's a dual challenge for organizations: adapting to the quick decay of existing expertise while preparing for entirely new skill sets and job roles.

Megatrend #4 - Digital Twins

Megatrend #4 - Digital Twins

It's one of the most unappreciated but most powerful megatrends with a huge amount of potential. And you might not know it, but it's already being used all around you.

Megatrend #3 - Human-Technology Integration

Megatrend #3 - Human-Technology Integration

Simply put, the convergence of technological innovation and the acceleration of medical science is ushering in a transformative era for healthcare.

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