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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…
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…
Megatrends One Year Later – #12: Personalized Medicine – What I Predicted, and What's Actually Happening
“Tomorrow’s cure lies not in a universal pill, but within our own genetic code.” - Futurist Jim Carroll One year ago, in July 2025, I published Megatrend #12: Personalized…
Wednesday Signals : The Acceleration Gap: Why Risk Now Moves Faster Than Governance Can Keep Up
I’m speaking today at the 2026 Governance, Risk and Control Conference, jointly presented by ISACA and The Institute of Internal Auditors. My message is built around a simple…
Megatrends One Year Later – #11: Longevity Science – What I Predicted, and What's Actually Happening
“The future is not just extending lifespan, but our healthspan, by treating aging itself.” - Futurist Jim Carroll One year ago, in July 2025, I published Megatrend #11: Longevity…
Megatrends One Year Later – #10: Predictive and Preventative Healthcare – What I Predicted, and What's Actually Happening
“The medicine of tomorrow isn’t about the miracle cure; it’s about the predictive insight that makes the cure unnecessary.” - Futurist Jim Carroll One year ago, in July 2025, I…
Megatrends One Year Later – #9: Climate-Positive Technologies – What I Predicted, and What's Actually Happening
“The next generation of infrastructure drives economic growth through purposeful design.” - Futurist Jim Carroll One year ago, in July 2025, I published Megatrend #9…
Megatrends One Year Later – #8: The Circular Economy – What I Predicted, and What's Actually Happening
“Opportunities come not just from turning trash into treasure, but from engineering systems and products to make that a regular reality.” - Futurist Jim Carroll One year ago, in…
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