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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 […]

The BIG Future: New Materials Science

This is a post about how dramatically your future is set to change. We’ll start here. My dad was a chemical engineer. He worked hard working with science – first, at a basic chemicals company; then, managing process and engineering at a liquor manufacturing company, and finally being in charge of a major company that manufactured […]

23 Trends for 2023 Recap: The Issues That Leadership Teams are Focused on Right Now!

Did you miss it? My “23 Trends for 2023” series drew a lot of leadership attention. It covers everything from the ‘return to work’ to AI, digital transformation to techno-skepticism, business models that are shifting to choosing not to take part in an economic downturn, crazy ideas mainstreaming to the end of oil, rapid product […]

Daily Inspiration: “If you are letting all this recession talk defer your plans for growth, you’re doing it all wrong!”

“If you are letting all this recession talk defer your plans for growth, you’re doing it all wrong!” – Futurist Jim Carroll History has taught us that those who win during periods of economic uncertainty are those who double down on strategies for growth, accelerate R&D, focus their sales efforts on top customers, and maintain […]

The BIG Future: Vertical Farming at Scale

One of the most fascinating trends unfolding in our future involves the world’s oldest profession. No – not that one. Agriculture! Imagine skyscrapers full of plants. That’s what begins to happen when the marriage of radical concepts, technology, and a pressing need for innovative thinking collide together to provide for a very BIG trend. One […]

KEYNOTE: The Acceleration of Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of the Robots – Promise and Peril in the Next Technological Transformation

The level of interest in my AI keynote presentation is nothing less than STAGGERING. I’ve never seen the world so captivated by a technology, so enamored by its opportunities, but also so worried about its potential impact. Organizations and associations are struggling to understand – what do we do now? I’m hitting a few groups […]

Video on Innovation, Growth & Creativity – London, UK

How do you inspire 500 dentists from throughout the United Kingdom to adapt to the future, align with the future, and accelerate into what’s next? Through 10 Great Words – here are the closing moments from my keynote for Invisalign.

Daily Inspiration: “A BIG future demands BIG ideas based on a BIG imagination!”

“A BIG future demands BIG ideas based on a BIG imagination!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I released the next trend in my BIG Future: Long Term Trends Transforming our World series – The BIG Future: Brain Science and the Acceleration of Neurological Care. The third in the series (with many more to come over the next […]

The BIG Future: Brain Science and the Acceleration of Neurological Care

Just 10 years ago, I lost a very dear friend to the tragedy that is Alzheimer’s Disease. I am defined by the hope that we might see this, and many other neurological and nervous systems conditions vanquished in the years to come as the result of the acceleration of the science of the brain. That’s […]