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Decoding Tomorrow: The Way Forward: #2 Agriculture- The farmer of the future is part biologist, part data scientist, and part roboticist—but is still 100% an optimist who plants a seed and believes in tomorrow."
"The farmer of the future is part biologist, part data scientist, and part roboticist—but is still 100% an optimist who plants a seed and believes in tomorrow." - Futurist Jim…
Decoding Tomorrow: Your Daily Future Inspiration - The Future of Manufacturing: "If you keep tiptoeing around the truth, the lies will eventually consume you!"
"If you keep tiptoeing around the truth, the lies will eventually consume you!" - Futurist Jim Carroll This post is not some personal validation or moral high ground type of…
Decoding Tomorrow: 30 Megatrends - #15 - 24-Hour Farming & Agricultural Reinvention "We are no longer restricted to only farming when the sun is up - and are witnessing the dawn of the digital harvest."
"We are no longer restricted to only farming when the sun is up - and are witnessing the dawn of the digital harvest." - Futurist Jim Carroll (Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a…
Daily Inspiration: Economic Volatility - "Turn your fear into fuel"
"Turn your fear into fuel" - Futurist Jim Carroll This photo was taken in October 2019. I'm in the room with a farming community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It's about as…
Keynote Case Study: Texas Farm Credit — Agricultural Finance Had to Learn to Fund the Future
Texas Farm Credit brought Jim Carroll to Dallas to challenge an audience with a uniquely important role in the future of agriculture. Many of the people in the room served on…
Daily Inspiration: Agriculture Trends - "Imagine a crazy idea. Now imagine it's real. That's your future!
"Imagine a crazy idea. Now imagine it's real. That's your future!" - Futurist Jim Carroll In a few hours, I'll be speaking at the annual event for Texas Farm Credit Bank. In the…
Daily Inspiration: Global Trade - "Broken trust? Broken futures."
"Broken trust? Broken futures." - Futurist Jim Carroll I didn't like season one. I sure as heck am not enjoying season 2. Anyway, while I'm doing my damndest to try to avoid the…
Keynote Case Study: National Association of Landscape Professionals — An Era of Fast Ideas
Jim spoke at the NALP Leaders Forum in Costa Rica to several hundred landscape industry leaders about the accelerating pace of change in design, technology, science…
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