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Tuesday Unfiltered: The Serenity Prayer, Tariff Rage, and Knowing When Not to Post
I am trying very hard not to post what I think. I'm mostly successful, but I do slip. So I need a 2026 version of my Social Media Serenity Prayer. Maybe something like this…
Megatrends One Year Later – #20: Physical-Digital Retail Integration – What I Predicted, and What's Actually Happening
“The future isn’t online or in-store; it’s a personalized, phygital experience where every interaction builds a lasting connection.” - Futurist Jim Carroll One year ago, in July…
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 career. It came directly from an advisor in the Office of the UAE’s Minister of State…
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 deliver value before it’s requested.” - Futurist Jim Carroll One year ago, in July 2025, I…
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 continuous reinvention.” - Futurist Jim Carroll One year ago, in July 2025, I published…
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 intelligent and automated world of tomorrow.” - Futurist Jim Carroll One year ago, in July…
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 reshape our reality.” - Futurist Jim Carroll One year ago, in July 2025, I published…
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 Americans don’t want either. The Wall Street Journal, no less, has called it the…
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 dawn of the digital harvest.” - Futurist Jim Carroll One year ago, in July 2025, I…
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 co-create the products that shape their world.” - Futurist Jim Carroll One year ago, in July 2025…
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 added an update at the end to bring it up to date. Enjoy! With all the keynotes I…
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 21st.” - Futurist Jim Carroll One year ago, in July 2025, I published Megatrend #13…
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