A video from the vaults.
It’s your future. It’s disruptive. What are you going to do about it?
by JimCarroll
A video from the vaults.
It’s your future. It’s disruptive. What are you going to do about it?
by JimCarroll
“Individually, any trend is disruptive. Combine them together, and suddenly, they’re massively transformative!” – Futurist Jim Carroll
There’s the future that you think you’ll have – then, there’s the future you will actually have!
That’s because your future is not impacted by any single trend – it’s now driven by multiple, different disruptive trends.
Consider just a few of these trends: software and connectivity now define the future of your industry as your product line becomes intelligent and connected – this trend in and of itself speeds up the pace of change. Innovation has become faster and more challenging in the era of edge thinking, upside-down innovation, and collaborative business models. The rapid emergence of new competitors is reshaping your future by necessity, and ever more demanding customers mean that your products increasingly risk becoming something from the ‘olden days’ faster.
These are just a few of the disruptive trends I’ve been covering – check my full list in my post, The Reality of Disruption: (24 Reasons Why Your Company Might Die Before You Get Old). It’s over at https://disruption.jimcarroll.com
Put all these trends together, and the reality is that your future is going to be far different than you think it will be because we live in the era of disruptive acceleration. Everything is faster, including the disruptive trends that are redefining your business model, relationship with customers, supply chain structure, day-to-day methodologies and procedures, the arrival of new competitors, the ongoing reinvention of your products and services, and so much more.
Need a good example of what this means? Todays’ quote was inspired by some heavy traffic visiting an article I wrote for Dubai’s Gulf Construction News in 2019: for some reason, it was being heavily trafficked this morning. You can find it here:
Trends coming together? Artificial intelligence, 3d printing, the arrival of new construction materials, advanced construction methodologies, and much, much more. Read the article and you’ll get the full breadth of what happens when everything comes together all at once.
You thought you were dealing with just one trend – your reality is that you are hyper-trending!
Stay tuned – in just a few weeks, I’ll be doing a virtual keynote on these very issues for a major construction conference.
by JimCarroll
“The secret to success? Spend more time being excited about the future you are going to pursue, rather than thinking about the past that you are still trying to solve!” – Futurist Jim Carroll
It’s all about a state of mind!
Each and every day, early in the morning, we face a choice – are we going to focus on what we might achieve for a better tomorrow, or are we going to spend our time trying to clean up the complexities of our past.
Some of my followers ask me what led me to write these daily posts, each and every day since early August 2016. Others ask me how I stay so relentlessly optimistic. Still more accuse me of being annoyingly upbeat and positive. To me, much about our future is all about a state of mind – we set ourselves up, each and every morning, for either failure or success. The choice seems pretty evident in my mind.
We can continue to worry about what we did yesterday – with all its challenges yet to be fixed, issues still to be solved, and problems still to be settled. Or, we can focus on tomorrow, with all the ideas that can be explored, opportunities to be pursued, and barriers still to be broken.
That’s not to say that there isn’t always a lot of sorting to do, logistics to be sorted, things to be settled.
It’s just that we should try and spend more time looking forward to where we are going, than looking back to where we’ve been. Because one thing is for certain – the future is where things are going to happen.
by JimCarroll
“Oil is over. Solar is the future. Batteries are everything. It’s not your grandad’s grid anymore!” – Futurist Jim Carroll
All of us now live in a time in which the use of carbon in our lives has begun its inevitable decline! You might not notice it happening, but you are immersed in the trend. Within 10 years, most of us will drive electric; we will power a good part of our daily energy use with renewables; the grid in which we are connected will be massively two-way and intelligent; and without noticing it, we’ll see a preponderance of battery storage throughout our energy lives. Oil and carbon, as an industry, are essentially over; Bloomberg suggests that 95% of all future energy investment to the year 2050 will be in renewables, grids, batteries, and electric.
I’ve been talking about this reality for several decades, but am not actively immersed in it. One of the most exciting things about my new home is the solar setup on the roof. We generate a healthy amount of electricity with our south-facing exposure, with an infrastructure that is silent but active. Some of the energy is consumed during the day as we power up our lives – working at home, which promises to be a significant amount. The unused excess is fed into the energy grid of my local utility, which earns us a healthy rebate through the year. I’ve suddenly become an energy producer and an energy consumer.
And the cool thing is that the batteries in my Tesla Model 3 are now, throughout the day, energized directly from the sun when I plug in at home. That’s but a starting point – I don’t yet have the technology that would turn the car itself into a battery storage system that could then feed energy directly back into the house if needed, but that technology – known as V2G or vehicle-to-grid – is coming at as quickly
We live in extraordinary times!
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