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101 Things #054: Rather than megabits and terabits, you'll be talking about yottabits. Hint: look it up

A dated future observation from Jim Carroll’s December 7, 2021 “101 Things We Know About Our Future” list.

Rather than megabits and terabits, you'll be talking about yottabits. Hint: look it up
101-thingsforesight-receipt2021
Publish Date2021-12-07
Updated Date2026-09-18
Made Date2021-12-07
Horizonnow
Outcomeopen
Confidencemedium

Original 2021 statement: Rather than megabits and terabits, you”ll be talking about yottabits. Hint: look it up

What Jim has written about this

From “Daily Inspiration: “It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!”” (January 2023)

As I close out this series of 23 Trends for 2023, I’ve been thinking long and hard as to what the final, all-encompassing trend should be; to be honest, I’ve had several. But they’ve all had a common theme - all of us finally have the chance to look forward to what’s next , rather than just concentrating right now on what we need to do to get through. In a conference call with a client the other day, I was given a gift when he mentioned that in his mind, they weres finally able to move away from triage - fast, quick steps to simply survive - to thinking about their future again. That’s it!

From “Daily Inspiration: “Expect velocity. Plan for acceleration. Structure for intensity. Execute relentlessly.”” (May 2017)

My job was to alert them that forthcoming trends would mean that they would be  faced with the need to accelerate the bandwidth on their networks. I spoke to the trends I predicted in my book of 1999, Light Bulbs to Yottabits, which took a look at the forthcoming world of online video.


Read the full pieces on jimcarroll.com:

Daily Inspiration: “It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!”
Daily Inspiration: “Expect velocity. Plan for acceleration. Structure for intensity. Execute relentlessly.”

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