Energy

"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

"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

"Contradictory uncertainty is your new normal!" - Futurist Jim Carroll It's a balancing act -  trying to figure out tomorrow! After all, to study the future today is to try to understand a story of contradictions. Case in point from two posts that I saw back-to-back

"The future is all around you. It's just that much of it hasn't been put together yet!"- Futurist Jim Carroll We are on the edge of massive multi-billion business opportunities in many industries, only awaiting someone to put the parts together that will

"Be bolder, sooner!" - Futurist Jim Carroll I'm off to Alberta, Canada, later today, where tomorrow I will be the closing speaker for the Canadian Petrochemical Summit. This is one of many events I've done in this industry - I've headlined leadership

"If you can't dream big, why bother dreaming at all?" - Futurist Jim Carroll Out on the fringe of exploration are a lot of 'crazy' ideas - that is until they aren't so crazy anymore! I was thinking of that when my