Jimism #002: The Half-Life of a Skill
September 16, 2026, BY JimCarrollYour expertise now has an expiry date. There was a time when you could learn a profession in...
Where’s the Growth? Right Here.
September 15, 2026, BY JimCarrollThree weeks ago, on August 25, I wrote a lengthy piece about Canada's economic future. My...
Your Inner Oddness Is Not a Flaw. It’s a Superpower.
September 15, 2026, BY JimCarrollAI can write your email. It can draft your strategy deck. It can even mimic your tone of voice,...
Megatrends One Year Later – #29: The Arrival of the Humanoid Robot – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
September 15, 2026, BY JimCarroll“A decade of progress in a year; the humanoid robot era is here, and it’s accelerating with...
Jimism #001: The Attention Recession
September 15, 2026, BY JimCarrollWhen everyone is chasing attention, there is none. We spent years talking about the information...
Megatrends One Year Later – #28: The Chase for Authenticity – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
September 14, 2026, BY JimCarroll“Celebrate your flaws and highlight your mistakes – because one day soon, they will become...
Introducing “Jimisms”: Ideas for What Comes Next
September 14, 2026, BY JimCarrollI've accumulated a lot of phrases over the years. Some started on a keynote stage. Some...
Remembering September 11, 2001
September 11, 2026, BY JimCarrollOn September 11, 2001, I was in my home office. I was alerted to the first tower; I saw the second...
I Was Told My AI Risk Keynote Was Too Dark. Then Anthropic Published the Footnotes.
September 11, 2026, BY JimCarrollA few weeks ago, I closed out the 2026 Governance, Risk and Control Conference in San Diego with a...
Megatrends One Year Later – #27: America’s Retreat – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
September 11, 2026, BY JimCarroll“By abandoning its R&D leadership, the US is ceding the future of global innovation and...
Megatrends One Year Later – #26: The Great R&D Capital Reallocation – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
September 10, 2026, BY JimCarroll“When capital flows as freely as ideas, the boundaries of innovation dissolve, unleashing a...
Wednesday Signals : Two Things You Should be Worried About – And What it Means for Your Future.
September 9, 2026, BY JimCarrollYour LG TV is doing worse than spying on you. It's listening to you, recording what you say,...
Megatrends One Year Later – #25: Urban Reimagination – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
September 9, 2026, BY JimCarroll“Beyond smart, we are building living cities: integrated ecosystems designed for a resilient,...
“Staying Neutral in Divisive Times”
September 8, 2026, BY JimCarrollHere's an email I just sent to the 225 bureau agents on my mailing list. It's been an interesting...
Megatrends One Year Later – #24: The Five Generation Society – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
September 8, 2026, BY JimCarroll“A world of five active generations creates unprecedented opportunities for innovation,...
Megatrends One Year Later – #23: Generational Value Shifts – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
September 4, 2026, BY JimCarroll“Digital natives aren’t just changing the workplace-they’re accelerating humanity’s...
Megatrends One Year Later – #22: Cross-Disciplinary Specialists – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
September 3, 2026, BY JimCarroll“The greatest competitive advantage isn’t knowing everything – it’s knowing how to...
Wednesday Signals: 95% Loved It. Why Do the Outliers Still Get Inside My Head?
September 2, 2026, BY JimCarrollI've been standing on stages for 33 years, and over that time the reaction to my keynotes has been...
Megatrends One Year Later – #21: Career Obsolescence and Creation – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
September 2, 2026, BY JimCarroll“As technology redefines work, our most valuable skill becomes our uniquely human ability to...
Tuesday Unfiltered: The Serenity Prayer, Tariff Rage, and Knowing When Not to Post
September 1, 2026, BY JimCarrollI am trying very hard not to post what I think. I'm mostly successful, but I do slip. So I need...
Megatrends One Year Later – #20: Physical-Digital Retail Integration – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
September 1, 2026, BY JimCarroll“The future isn’t online or in-store; it’s a personalized, phygital experience where...
Monday Musings: The Keynote I Never Gave: Five Perspectives on the Future of the UAE
August 31, 2026, BY JimCarrollIn September 2024, I received one of the more unusual and intriguing speaking inquiries of my...
Megatrends One Year Later – #19: Temporal Commerce – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
August 31, 2026, BY JimCarroll“The future of commerce isn’t about selling products, but selling time. The winners will...
Megatrends One Year Later – #18: Compressed Innovation Cycles – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
August 28, 2026, BY JimCarroll“In the era of transient advantage, the only sustainable strategy is the velocity of...
Megatrends One Year Later – #17: Micro-Autonomous Systems – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
August 27, 2026, BY JimCarroll“Individually small, collectively revolutionary. Micro-swarms are silently building the...
Megatrends One Year Later – #16: Material Science Breakthroughs – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
August 26, 2026, BY JimCarroll“We are moving beyond static objects to a world of living materials that heal, think, and...
Why Canada Wins: I Asked “Where’s the Growth?” in 2009. Mark Carney Seems to Have Read the Playbook in 2026 (And my book!)
August 25, 2026, BY JimCarrollSo, Canada seems to be in a trade war — one it didn’t want, and one that, it would seem, most...
Megatrends One Year Later – #15: 24-Hour Farming & Agricultural Reinvention – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
August 25, 2026, BY JimCarroll“We are no longer restricted to only farming when the sun is up – and are witnessing the...
Megatrends One Year Later – #14: Mass Customization Systems – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
August 24, 2026, BY JimCarroll“The future isn’t mass-produced; it’s mass-personalized, empowering customers to...
Friday Fun: Reprise – The Encore: Innovation, Disruption, and Spinal Tap Moments (The Update!)
August 21, 2026, BY JimCarrollIt's 2026, but here's something I wrote in 2013 that I think still stands the test of time! I've...
Megatrends One Year Later – #13: Brain and Cognitive Health – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
August 21, 2026, BY JimCarroll“What we did for heart health in the 20th century, we will be doing for brain health in the...
Thursday Thoughts: I Wrote a Book to Escape the Sameness of AI. I Started Writing it Before AI Became THE Thing!
August 20, 2026, BY JimCarrollWhen everyone is empowered with the same magic, is there any magic to be had? That's one of the...
Megatrends One Year Later – #12: Personalized Medicine – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
August 20, 2026, BY JimCarroll“Tomorrow’s cure lies not in a universal pill, but within our own genetic code.” -...
Keynote Case Study: ISACA + IIA GRC Conference — Risk Was Moving at Machine Speed
August 19, 2026, BY JimCarrollJim delivered a closing keynote in San Diego on how AI, autonomous systems and accelerating...
Wednesday Signals : The Acceleration Gap: Why Risk Now Moves Faster Than Governance Can Keep Up
August 19, 2026, BY JimCarrollI’m speaking today at the 2026 Governance, Risk and Control Conference, jointly presented by...
Megatrends One Year Later – #11: Longevity Science – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
August 19, 2026, BY JimCarroll“The future is not just extending lifespan, but our healthspan, by treating aging...
Tuesday: Here’s what burnout looks like, raw, unfiltered.
August 18, 2026, BY JimCarrollI burned out. I tried to manage things, and failed. Sobriety cured it. Watch this: that's...
Megatrends One Year Later – #10: Predictive and Preventative Healthcare – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
August 18, 2026, BY JimCarroll“The medicine of tomorrow isn’t about the miracle cure; it’s about the predictive insight...
Monday Mining: What Made You Successful Won’t Anymore — Still True
August 17, 2026, BY JimCarroll“What made you successful in the last 10 years will not make you successful in the next 10. Given...
Megatrends One Year Later – #9: Climate-Positive Technologies – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening
August 17, 2026, BY JimCarroll“The next generation of infrastructure drives economic growth through purposeful design.” -...











































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