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Monday Musings: The Keynote I Never Gave: Five Perspectives on the Future of the UAE

In September 2024, I received one of the more unusual and intriguing speaking inquiries of my...

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Megatrends One Year Later – #19: Temporal Commerce – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“The future of commerce isn’t about selling products, but selling time. The winners will...

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Megatrends One Year Later – #18: Compressed Innovation Cycles – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“In the era of transient advantage, the only sustainable strategy is the velocity of...

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Thursday Thoughts: Confident Stupidity, Tariffs, and the Era of FAFO

A blunt phrase perfectly captures our current era of geopolitical and economic upheaval: "fuck...

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Megatrends One Year Later – #17: Micro-Autonomous Systems – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“Individually small, collectively revolutionary. Micro-swarms are silently building the...

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Megatrends One Year Later – #16: Material Science Breakthroughs – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“We are moving beyond static objects to a world of living materials that heal, think, and...

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Why Canada Wins: I Asked “Where’s the Growth?” in 2009. Mark Carney Seems to Have Read the Playbook in 2026 (And my book!)

So, Canada seems to be in a trade war — one it didn’t want, and one that, it would seem, most...

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Megatrends One Year Later – #15: 24-Hour Farming & Agricultural Reinvention – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“We are no longer restricted to only farming when the sun is up – and are witnessing the...

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Megatrends One Year Later – #14: Mass Customization Systems – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“The future isn’t mass-produced; it’s mass-personalized, empowering customers to...

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Friday Fun: Reprise – The Encore: Innovation, Disruption, and Spinal Tap Moments (The Update!)

It's 2026, but here's something I wrote in 2013 that I think still stands the test of time! I've...

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Megatrends One Year Later – #13: Brain and Cognitive Health – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“What we did for heart health in the 20th century, we will be doing for brain health in the...

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Thursday Thoughts: I Wrote a Book to Escape the Sameness of AI. I Started Writing it Before AI Became THE Thing!

When everyone is empowered with the same magic, is there any magic to be had? That's one of the...

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Megatrends One Year Later – #12: Personalized Medicine – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“Tomorrow’s cure lies not in a universal pill, but within our own genetic code.” -...

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Wednesday Signals : The Acceleration Gap: Why Risk Now Moves Faster Than Governance Can Keep Up

I’m speaking today at the 2026 Governance, Risk and Control Conference, jointly presented by...

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Megatrends One Year Later – #11: Longevity Science – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“The future is not just extending lifespan, but our healthspan, by treating aging...

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Tuesday: Here’s what burnout looks like, raw, unfiltered.

I burned out. I tried to manage things, and failed. Sobriety cured it. Watch this: that's...

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Megatrends One Year Later – #10: Predictive and Preventative Healthcare – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“The medicine of tomorrow isn’t about the miracle cure; it’s about the predictive insight...

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Monday Mining: What Made You Successful Won’t Anymore — Still True

“What made you successful in the last 10 years will not make you successful in the next 10. Given...

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Megatrends One Year Later – #9: Climate-Positive Technologies – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“The next generation of infrastructure drives economic growth through purposeful design.” -...

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Friday Fun: The Most Useless but Mesmerizing Website Ever Built

Right here . Watch and...

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Megatrends One Year Later – #8: The Circular Economy – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“Opportunities come not just from turning trash into treasure, but from engineering systems...

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Thursday Thoughts: I’m Tired of the Idiocy. Weary of the wing-nuts.

Do you check the news every morning looking for a certain news item? I do. I'm weary of the...

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Megatrends One Year Later – #7: Energy Decentralization – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“The power plant of the future isn’t a smokestack. It’s all around your home.” - Futurist...

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Megatrends One Year Later – #6: Electrification Revolution – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“The global power grid is being rewired. You can either argue about the old outlets or help...

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Wednesday Signals: Kindness Matters

With the conclusion of my long-running Daily Inspiration series, welcome to the launch of...

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Megatrends One Year Later – #5: Knowledge Acceleration – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“It’s not what you know – it’s knowing what you need to know, and knowing how to know...

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Tuesday Unfiltered: Why I Kept the Schedule and Lost the Filter

"Never give up on a great idea!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Two weeks ago I ended a streak that...

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Monday Mining: The 80% Jobs Prediction, Ten Years Later

“Some estimates suggest that 80% of today's jobs might not exist in the same form in just 10...

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Megatrends One Year Later – #4: Digital Twinning – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“With a digital twin, we don’t just envision the future; we build it, test it, and perfect it,...

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Megatrends One Year Later – #3: Human Technology Integration – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“When technology and human biology merge, the boundaries of what medicine can achieve completely...

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Monday Mining: Bio-Printed Organs: Checking the Timeline

“It might be a matter of years, not decades, before bio-printed replacement organs are a reality....

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Megatrends One Year Later – #2: Ambient Intelligence – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“AI is the invisible architect dissolving computing into the very fabric of our lives.” -...

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Megatrends One Year Later – #1: Transformative AI – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening

“The only thing we know for certain about AI is that we don’t know exactly where we are...

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From NASA to Nestlé: 250 Customized Keynotes, One Futurist!

An email going out next week. Over the last few months, the meetings and speaker...

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Daily Inspiration: “At some moment in time, we transition from the shame of who we once became, into pride for who we have become!” – The Final Daily Inspiration

"At some moment in time,, we transition from the shame of who we once became, into pride for...

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Daily Inspiration: “Yesterday’s gone. Tomorrow’s a mystery. Today’s the one that actually shows up – so show up for it!”

"Yesterday's gone. Tomorrow's a mystery. Today's the one that actually shows up - so show up for...

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Daily Inspiration: “You never know whose worst day your words will arrive on. Write like it matters!”

"You never know whose worst day your words will arrive on. So write like every single moment in...

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Daily Inspiration: “Success: cumulative small steps tied together – then suddenly, a seismic shift!”

"Success: cumulative small steps tied together - then suddenly, a seismic shift!" - Futurist Jim...

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Daily Inspiration: “You don’t find your voice in the calm. You find it in the storm!”

"You don't find your voice in the calm. You find it in the storm!" - Futurist Jim...

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Daily Inspiration: “The words you repeat become the future you build!”

"The words you repeat become the future you build!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Part 2 of my...

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THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO ARE FAST features the best of the insight from Jim Carroll’s blog, in which he
covers issues related to creativity, innovation and future trends.

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