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Daily Inspiration: ""A different direction means a louder voice. Get ready, world: you're getting more Canadian cowbell."
"A different direction means a louder voice. Get ready, world: you're getting more Canadian cowbell." - Futurist Jim Carroll Happy Canada Day! July 1 marks the 159th birthday of…
Daily Inspiration: The Trends Scorecard Series: Grading 20+ Years of My Predictions (Introduction)
"Anyone can make a prediction. Few are brave enough to be graded on it." - Futurist Jim Carroll This is the introduction to a new series, The Trends Scorecard, in which I go back…
The Future, Mapped: 30 Years of Thinking About What Comes Next
A navigable map of 30 years and ~5,000 posts of futurism — organized into the themes shaping how the world is changing.
Daily Inspiration: The Massive Web Traffic Collapse Part 3 - "Every website must now speak fluent AI. It's time to get yours graded!"
"Every website must now speak fluent AI. It's time to get yours graded!" - Futurist Jim Carroll Yesterday I showed you what I built to get my site ready for the era of Ai. Today I…
Daily Inspiration: The Massive Web Traffic Collapse Part 2 – "Your website is no longer a magazine for humans to read. It is a structured database for machines to ingest."
"Your website is no longer a magazine for humans to read. It is a structured database for machines to ingest." - Futurist Jim Carroll Watch this video. You need to understand why…
Daily Inspiration: The Massive Web Traffic Collapse - "Bots: 492. Humans: 1."
"Bots: 492. Humans: 1." - Futurist Jim Carroll Let's talk about the elephant in the room - the fact that the Web, as we know it, is coming to an end, and that search, which so…
Daily Inspiration: "Never fear admitting your first attempt fell short."
"Never fear admitting your first attempt fell short." - Futurist Jim Carroll So this happened yesterday! ...which means we should go to print in the next few short weeks. I did…
Daily Inspiration: "You can't move a clock faster than it goes!"
"You can't move a clock faster than it goes!" - Futurist Jim Carroll One of the funniest and more unusual aspects of working with your wife in a home office for more than 30 years…
Daily Inspiration: "Every major failure always comes back to a leader who rises to the level of their own staggering incompetence!"
"Every major failure always comes back to a leader who rises to the level of their own staggering incompetence!" - Futurist Jim Carroll And sometimes you get to watch it unfold in…
Daily Inspiration: "Every industry-changing breakthrough begins with a simple question: Why do we still do it this way?"
"Every industry-changing breakthrough begins with a simple question: Why do we still do it this way?" - Futurist Jim Carroll Of all the phrases I've come to hate over the years…
Daily Inspiration: "One of the greatest tragedies of our time is the number of people who are willingly turning their backs on tomorrow."
"One of the greatest tragedies of our time is the number of people who are willingly turning their backs on tomorrow" - Futurist Jim Carroll I will never understand this era…
Daily Inspiration: "The organizations that look most ready for the future are often the ones most blind to the fact that they aren't."
"The organizations that look most ready for the future are often the ones most blind to the fact that they aren't." - Futurist Jim Carroll "The moment you think your future is…
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