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"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 aren't prepared for acceleration you aren't prepared for your future!" - Futurist Jim Carroll On March 19, 2012, Amazon acquired the robotics maker Kiva. It had 1,000 robots. Today, it has more than 750,000 in use, with plans for many,

"Bring on tomorrow!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Like the sign says. Bring on tomorrow - because if you don't, your tomorrow might not work out so well! The photo is from my stage setup yesterday - an exhilarating day in Fort Worth with a keynote for

"When your missteps are under a microscope, your mistakes are massively magnified!" - Futurist Jim Carroll The LMPD has no case. It knows this but is trying to save face by talking Scotty Scheffler down to a misdemeanor. His lawyer knows they have no case, but the police

"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

"When the future becomes a culture war, watch the trends. Not the noise" - Futurist Jim Carroll It's a weird time to be a futurist - have you noticed that the future has become a culture war? While you deal with the realities of science, technologies,