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10 Highlights from 2017! My Favourite Stages, My 50,000 people + 4 V.I.People!
Some people really don't understand what a unique career a futurist like me has. Every once in a while, I pinch myself, and feel so lucky to have a remarkable opportunity to…
Agriculture is Hot: Consider some stats!
I'm cleaning up from some of the research that went into my recent talk for the United Soybean Board last week. Here are some of the fascinating statistics I dug out about the…
Daily Inspiration: "The best thing about yesterday is that it's in then past. The greatest thing about the future - it's tomorrow! And you only get to change one of them - through what you choose to do today!"
"The best thing about yesterday is that it's in then past. The greatest thing about the future - it's tomorrow! And you only get to change one of them - through what you choose to…
Keynote: New York Life, New York - Insurance : Disruptive, Transformative & Innovative!
This was my final event of the year, just two days ago, and it was just plain fun! It was an end of year “town hall”, and the organization wanted an upbeat, optimistic view of the…
Daily Inspiration: “You know you have a serious problem when people laugh at your new ideas!”
“You know you have a serious problem when people laugh at your new ideas!” - Futurist Jim Carroll
Your new vocabulary for 2017? "Destructive, impulsive unpredictability," "yottabit pipelines" and "connected energy" ... and more!
As the wild year of 2016 draws to a close, and 2017 arrives, what can you expect in the coming year? Rather than a list of predictions for 2017, let's simply focus on some of the…
Golf balls with webcams, golf carts, and the future!
For as long as there has been the future, there have been people who don't like it. Ogden Nash captured that reality perfect, when he observed that "for some people, progress is…
Accelerating Innovation: My Time with the United Soybean Board
I do a *lot* of talks for agricultural organizations, both associations as well as agricultural companies (most of the global leaders in this space have had me in for senior…
Daily Inspiration: “The thing about experience is that it only comes around after you really need it!”
“The thing about experience is that it only comes around after you really need it!” - Futurist Jim Carroll
Keynote: United Soybean Board, St. Louis - The Future of Agriculture and Farming
Essentially, agriculture is about science, and science is exponentiating. Essentially, agriculture is about science, and science is exponentiating. The result is that knowledge…
Daily Inspiration: “If you don’t do it today, when are you going to do it?”
“If you don’t do it today, when are you going to do it?” - Futurist Jim Carroll
Keynote Case Study: United Soybean Board — Reinventing the Value of a Crop Through Science
In December 2016, Jim Carroll addressed approximately 300 soybean farmers at a United Soybean Board event in St. Louis. Farmers already understood the pressure of markets…
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