Twenty-five predictions Jim Carroll made in 2014 about 2025, paired with his January 2025 retrospective grading.
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25 Trends for 2025
Twenty-five predictions Jim Carroll made in 2014 about 2025, paired with his January 2025 retrospective grading.
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| Publish Date | 2026-09-18 |
| Updated Date | 2026-09-18 |
| Kind | series |
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- Predictions Cash will have all but disappeared
- Predictions Africa will have ceased to be a rural continent
- Predictions Much of the world has 'gone up
- Predictions We'll see the first human live to the age of 150
- Predictions A constant stream of bio-connectivity data drives healthcare decisions
- Predictions The fastest-growing profession involves people known as 'personal health concierges
- Predictions Plants will 'talk' to us
- Predictions The concept of TV as a 'physical device' has disappeared
- Predictions Micro nationals dominate global markets
- Predictions Re-generative energy technology is everywhere; it's transformative, storable, re-usable
- Predictions Poll-democracy takes flight
- Predictions Paper is really something 'from the olden days'
- Predictions Grown up! The first 12-generation family is part of earth society
- Predictions Crowd thinking has replaced most forms of peer research
- Predictions Regenerative DNA farms will abound
- Predictions The package is the product
- Predictions What we did for heart health in the 20th century, we did for brain health in 2025
- Predictions Most industries have gone upside down
- Predictions The concept of an education degree has come to an end; "just-in-time knowledge factories" dominate...
- Predictions The electrical grid of the early 21st century is gone; micro-grids dominate energy supply and use
- Predictions Sub-Saharan Africa emerged as the world's new China
- Predictions Light has been stopped in its tracks
- Predictions Domain names disappeared
- Predictions Apple is delisted
- Predictions Jim Carroll shoots his age! In golf
- Scorecards 25 Trends for 2025: 2014 Forecast Scorecard
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