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"New risk demands new thinking. Uninsurable risk demands bold thinking." - Futurist Jim Carroll In just about a month, I'll head to California to headline a major insurance conference. The fact that I'm speaking in a region that is home to one of the

"Where are you holding back your opportunities because you don't want to change?" - Futurist Jim Carroll Last week, the National Association of Landscape Professionals had me down to Costa Rica for their leadership forum; you might have seen some information about that when I posted

"Doing the wrong thing for the wrong reason never has a snowball-in-hell chance of being the right thing!" = Futurist Jim Carroll It takes a lot to get Canadians pretty angry. Suffice it to say, a sleeping giant woke up from the snow, looked around, and didn't

"Science always has the last word!" - Futurist Jim Carrol My wife is a much smarter person than I am, always suggesting that I should stay away from some of the controversial topics of the day. But I'm not very smart. As a futurist, it'

"Never forget that yesterday's assumptions are today's vulnerabilities!" - Futurist Jim Carroll It was a wild day for AI yesterday. And it was also a wild day for stocks. The two are interrelated. You might have noticed that tech stocks took a beating. All

"Fictional utopias are usually just that!" - Futurist Jim Carroll We are living in the era of grand, sweeping tech utopian visions promoted by the technology titans of our time. Yesterday, this post by Marc Andreessen - that AI would eventually lead to some sort of future nirvana