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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.

TRENDS INSIGHTS

What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You!

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 […]

Keynote Topics 2023: Growth, Innovation & Creativity, Megatrends, Leadership and Acceleration

I just sent out my February update to all my speaker bureau partners – I’m represented by most of the major ones in the world and opened with this. It’s self-explanatory. Suffice it to say, this is what clients are looking for today! As we head into 2023, it’s pretty apparent there is a lot […]

The BIG Future: Connected Energy

Energy in our electrical system used to be one-way and was mostly from carbon. We are now on the edge of an era in which generation is primarily based on renewables, is distributed, connected, intelligent, and part of a super big hyperconnected microgrid with a lot of batteries. Intelligent, connected smart energy takes us into a world in which our […]

The BIG Future: “Regenerative Medicine” and a New Era of Healthcare Science

We might live longer. We will see the reduction, elimination, or perhaps eradication of diseases. We’ll fix broken bones with lab-grown materials. We will grow human organs for transplant. And in that context, we will be doing stuff tomorrow that seems like the science fiction of yesterday – because it is already starting to happen […]

Daily Inspiration: “Think BIG. Your future will thank you for it.”

“Think BIG. Your future will thank you for it.” – Futurist Jim Carroll In times of volatility, people tend to become pessimistic about what’s next. But, the future doesn’t care – it marches on. The result is that we tend to see short-term trends but miss out on big long-term ones. We lose faith in […]

Video: A Futurist and a Drummer Meet Up with a Robot! What’s Going on In The World of AI?

Futurist Jim Carroll and Stand Up Drummer Tom Morley couldn’t be more different, and yet, they’re both the same! Jim has advised organizations like NASA and Disney on future trends; Tom was the drummer for the 80s’ bad Scritti Politti, and has done session work for the likes of the late David Bowie. Together, their […]

Leadership: Why Acceleration is the Key to 2023!

I’ve been doing some cleanup of things and realized that this video I filmed out in San Francisco years ago still has an important message. I’m finding that it’s the CEOs of organizations that this message resonates with – they’re looking for detailed insight into their issues that can be delivered at an offsite event. […]

23 Trends for 2023: #23 Forward, Finally!

Next month will mark 3 years since individuals and organizations began to go through the largest disruption they will ever know. With lockdowns, a staggering loss of human life, work-from-home, and the rapid emergence of a digital lifestyle and e-commerce infrastructure – we all had to learn to adapt quickly. As I close out this […]

23 Trends for 2023: #22 Opportunity, Not Fads

2023: Not hot: cryptocurrency, the Metaverse, Web 3.0, NFT’s, and more Hot: Fusion! AI! Generative technologies. The issues of the future always revolve around the hype of what’s hot, what’s not, what to expect – with little regard for the practicality of the trend or the timing by which the future might unfold. Fusion? There […]

23 Trends for 2023: #21 Accelerating Generational Disruption

The youngest generation now entering the full-time workforce was born right after 9/11. They were six or seven years old during the global financial meltdown and recession of 2007-08. They’ve now lived through the global pandemic. And they’ve had a cellphone – most likely an iPhone – since they were ten years old, with social […]

23 Trends for 2023: #20 The Rise of the Robots

They’re everywhere! Little robots scurrying about, doing the jobs that humans don’t want to do! Despite the widespread techno-skepticism which I identified in Trend #1 – Technoskpeticism and Retiming the Future, it’s pretty clear that many technologies are having their moment. Robotics is clearly one of the most relevant, which is why it’s trend #20 of my […]