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Automotive & Mobility · 2021
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World class innovators? Big,bold and fast, not timid and slow...
On stage at a massive manufacturing conference in Las Vegas in 2010, with a message for several thousand more manufacturing executives - engineers, senior executives, product…
Daily Inspiration: “At this very moment, someone within your industry is pursuing the very big, bold, disruptive ideas that you fear!”
“At this very moment, someone within your industry is pursuing the very big, bold, disruptive ideas that you fear!” - Futurist Jim Carroll This speech, for the Interactive…
Daily Inspiration: “Oil is over. Solar is the future. Batteries are everything. It’s not your grandad's grid anymore!”
“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…
Daily Inspiration: "It's not always just the vision that matters - it's the ability to make it work that really counts!”
"It's not always just the vision that matters - it's the ability to make it work that really counts!” - Futurist Jim Carroll I live in awe of my wife of 32 years. So there I was…
Daily Inspiration: "Your future is assured. Until suddenly, it isn't"
"Your future is assured. Until suddenly, it isn't" - Futurist Jim Carroll I picked up my new Tesla yesterday. I've promised myself that I wouldn't go crazy with my Daily…
Headlines: Why Electric Cars will Happen Faster Than You Think (and Everything Else You Need to Know About Energy!)
I've long been meaning to interview one of the smartest guys I know in the world of energy and utilities, and last week found the perfect opportunity to finally do it - an…
Daily Inspiration: "Dare to disrupt your future - because if you don't do it, someone else will!"
"Dare to disrupt your future - because if you don't do it, someone else will!" - Futurist Jim Carroll I filmed a show yesterday about the future of energy, renewables, cars, and…
Daily Inspiration: “You can read the news to learn more about what’s going on - or follow a futurist to know about it before it happens!”
“You can read the news to learn more about what’s going on - or follow a futurist to know about it before it happens!” - Futurist Jim Carroll I was skimming the news last night…
Daily Inspiration: “Your effort in ‘business model preservation’ to avoid ‘business model disruption’ will probably be the death of you!”
“Your effort in ‘business model preservation’ to avoid ‘business model disruption’ will probably be the death of you!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Back in the dot.com days, my…
Fitbits for Cows, Drone Technology, and the Fact that the Future of Just About Everything is All About Batteries!
Here's a clip to get you thinking! It's from a talk I gave for a global Siemens energy summit. I'm telling the story about how the fact that we have 'fitbits for cows' is one of…
Daily Inspiration: “Every accurate prediction eventually becomes real!”
“Every accurate prediction eventually becomes real!” - Futurist Jim Carroll I predicted the Tesla business model at a meeting in Stuttgart, Germany in 2005; it was a global…
Daily Inspiration: “Disruption? You are moving from the ‘transit business’ to an ‘on-demand, shared-ride mobility service business!”
“Disruption? You are moving from the ‘transit business’ to an ‘on-demand, shared-ride mobility service business!” - Futurist Jim Carroll On this day in 2018, I was at the Gaylord…
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