Insight Index - Futurist Keynote Speaker Jim Carroll: Disruptive Trend & Innovation Expert

JIM’S INSIGHTS

Futurist Jim Carroll has quickly become recognized as your ‘go-to source’ for effective insight on what comes next, the strategies that you consider, and the leadership path you need to follow.

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What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You!

AI Highlight Reel: AI Megatrends- And The Strategy You Need RIGHT NOW.

The future of AI? It’s not just about ChatGPT. It’s the AI Megatrends. Those are even bigger. You need to watch this. You can’t afford to fall behind. Then call me.

Daily Inspiration: “You can’t manufacture intelligence, but with some intelligence, you can manufacture tomorrow!”

“You can’t manufacture intelligence, but with some intelligence, you can manufacture tomorrow!” – Futurist Jim Carroll As AI envelopes the world in 2023, everyone is enamored, stunned, fascinated, and overwhelmed by what they can do with tools like ChatGPT and the entire software ecosystem that is exploding around it. There is certainly a lot going […]

Video: An AI Interviews Futurist Jim Carroll About Artificial Intelligence!

Today, an AI interviewed me about .. artificial intelligence. We talk about strategy, what CEOs are thinking about, why I launched my new jimcarroll.ai Website, the AI Megatrends series I am writing and so much more!

Article: “Artificial Intelligence: The Acceleration of Risk and Legal Complexity & What To Do About It”

My friends over at the Washington Speakers Bureau just published my article on the future of legal risk and the increasing complexity of the law as a result of accelerating AI. I want you to hit their Web site right now to read it. It’s always such a thrill when these folks book me into […]

AI Megatrends – AI In Manufacturing: Further Accelerating the Automation of Everything – and going from $6.2 billion to $181 billion in 8 years!

What’s the future of AI in the world of manufacturing? The simple answer – since it is already in widespread use, there is a lot more yet to come! Lofty promises Consider the trends which have already led to a massive acceleration of everything having to do with the world of manufacturing. As I describe […]

Introducing FutureFit.International: “At the bottom of hopelessness, there is a mountain of opportunity!”

Introducing FutureFit.International! It’s wonderful to launch a new initiative that I have put together with my good friend and strength coach Nicholas Ingel in South Africa. He was one of 7 people featured in my book, “Now What? Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your Next Future!” The country is in dire straits, […]

AI Megatrends – AI in Agriculture – Beyond ChatGPT: It’s Not Your Granddad’s Farm Anymore!

Whether it’s driverless tractors, weed-zapping robots, or data-transmitting crops, the future of farming is happening faster than you might think! We’re rapidly transitioning into a world of 24-hour farming, no longer restricted to farming only when the sun is up! This is one of the big issues and big ideas that I’ve been putting across […]

Video: Is the Legacy Auto Industry Finally Accepting the Future?

Companies fight the future, often when they refuse to accept it, acknowledge it, or know that they aren’t ready for it. Auto companies have been particularly egregious in this regard as they’ve tried to deny the reality of electric cars. But do they finally get it? I took on this topic in a podcast I […]

AI Megatrends – AI In Healthcare – Why the Acceleration of Knowledge Will Be the Biggest Challenge!

ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and all the other technology that is in the press these days are massively disruptive – the future of the way we search and interact with information is set to change in massive ways. And yet, with all the attention on that, few folks are thinking of the other big […]

Daily Inspiration: “It’s often the most boring of trends that provide the most exciting of opportunities!”

“It’s often the most boring of trends that provide the most exciting of opportunities!” – Futurist Jim Carroll People don’t like ‘boring’ – it’s boring. They like fast-moving, exciting, edge-of-your-seat excitement. So too it is with the future – AI is exciting, it’s fast, it’s far reaching. That’s an exciting future. But boring? That’s to […]

The Big Future – Methodology Modification

It’s one of the least exciting and yet most far-reaching of future trends – for want of a better phrase, ‘methodology modification.’ What’s it all about? Essentially, we’ve been doing the same thing the same way for many decades (if not centuries) with the same basic methodologies – but the impact of technology, digitization, artificial […]

Article: “Open for the Future” – “”Embrace the chaos. Volatility is the new normal” (Agriculture & Farming Future)

I spend a LOT of time speaking to the agricultral and farming sector. I’m on the record – I have it on video – of spekaing at conference s in other industries noting that farmers are some of the most innovative people I know. And so it was a thrill to see this article in […]

The Acceleration of A.I. – The Strategy and the Challenge

I’ve been speaking on stage about AI for years; as a futurist, it’s been top of mind forever! In this short broadcast, I’ll share my thoughts on what we need to be thinking about when it comes to the strategy of AI, as described over on my new website at https://jimcarroll.ai Everyone is talking about […]

Keynote Audience Q&A – “What’s Up with AI?” : A Reality Check

From a recent keynote – an audience member wants to know what’s up! I thought it might be helpful to share the whole transcript. I like to know, what do you feel about AI? And what’s beyond AI, in your opinion? A bloody mess. I’ve been talking about the AI for a long time, obviously,as […]

Keynote Topic: The Future of Financial Services – The Next Generation Financial Consumer and Financial Advisor

Back in 2008, just before the global economic meltdown, Credit Suisse (just purchased by UBS) interviewed me for its’ global client publication Bulletin. Distributed to 150,000 key clients worldwide, the publication covered multiple different topic issues; in my case, they probed my mind for my thoughts on insight, innovation, creativity, transformation, and disruption – and […]

Short, Sharp Shocks of Strategic Insight: Why CEOs Are Accelerating their Offsite Leadership Meetings (Part 1 of 2)

Some years ago, I wrote an article for one of my representatives, the Washington Speakers Bureau. They represent such people as Condoleeza Rice, George W. Bush, Tony Blair, John Kerry, Magic Johnson, and Terry Bradshaw — global political, sports, and other leaders – and have been booking me into a variety of events since 2001. […]

ChatGPT and the Acceleration of A.I. – Recent Keynote Video Clip

I think you would agree with me that we’ve never quite seen a speaking topic emerge so quickly as what has happened in the last few months with artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, and all the related topics. I was on stage in Laguna Beach, California two days ago with several hundred insurance executives. A.I. was on […]

Artificial intelligence. A.I. ChatGPT. Stable Diffusion – The Promise and Peril of Our Fast Future (LONG POST!)

The advances in AI this year have been staggering and impressive. Can you ever remember when a new technology burst onto the scene with such wild speed? I can – when the World Wide Web emerged in early 1993, and corporate groups. associations and organizations were scrambling to establish a presence and figure out a […]

Daily Inspiration: “Too many trends are overhyped and under-delivered. Mastering the future involves figuring out which ones!”

“Too many trends are overhyped and under-delivered. Mastering the future involves figuring out which ones!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I love my Tesla. But as you know, I’m no longer a big fan of the founder. And I’ve become massively skeptical of the potential for self-driving cars – indeed, I suspect that I got both […]

A.I. – It’s Not the Trends – It’s Your Strategy

You can’t have missed the fact that GPT4 dropped yesterday. AI is moving faster than fast. When I talk about the timing of the future on stage, I often emphasize that ‘any trend can suddenly go supernova’ at any point in time. That’s what’s happening RIGHT NOW with A.I. There’s a lot going on. But […]

Leadership and Volatility: It’s What You Do Right Now That Matters

History teaches us that those who move forward, fast, during periods of relentless uncertainty, are those who win. Futurist Jim Carroll on stage in London, England, with a powerful on leadership and volatility.

The BIG Future: The Longevity Divide

Since 1900, global life expectancy has doubled. But now, accelerating medical science, combined with a focus on lifestyle, is leading us to the era of the ‘super-seniors’ – a growing percentage of the population that will live a rewarding and fulfilling life to 100 and perhaps, beyond. At the same, time, however, many will die an early death. Increasing […]

Daily Inspiration: “The future of work? It’s the skills you don’t know about that you need to be planning for!”

“The future of work? It’s the skills you don’t know about that you need to be planning for!” – Futurist Jim Carroll What can the legal cannabis industry teach us about the future? Quite a bit about the future of the workforce and skills. As I will often joke on stage, most major food companies […]

Daily Inspiration: “A strategy based on ‘FOMO’ is not a strategy. It’s lunacy!”

“A strategy based on ‘FOMO’ is not a strategy. It’s lunacy” – Futurist Jim Carroll The near-term future with A.I. is an unholy mess. The long term doesn’t look much better really, and it’s safe to say that going forward, chat-based artificial intelligence is the new crypto! There is so much hype around this fast-moving […]