Original 2021 statement: Knee replacements will be grown at a bio-tissue farm, with customization based upon your specific DNA.
What Jim has written about this
From “Daily Inspiration: “It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!”” (January 2023)
In the near future, you’re going to eat “who you are”, with daily food plans based on your personal DNA profile
From “Daily Inspiration: (Grading My 2014 Predictions About 2025) - “Sometimes you need not be right you just need to be bold!”” (January 2025)
#10 - Re-generative energy technology is everywhere; it’s transformative, storable, reusable. Most energy use is no longer based on a ‘one-time’ use; instead, most of the energy consumption in the world comes from re-generative devices. We will have seen a gradual but steady decline in the use of carbon and other energy sources (in which the energy source can only be used once, and then disappears.). There will be lots of bicycles with hydraulics that store energy while going downhill; homes that create energy from static generated from people walking on a new type of intelligent floor covering; lights that use special reflectors to re-send the beam back to an in-bulb mirror that makes just a little bit more energy. Every photon counts! Claude.AI: Regenerative Energy Technology. Grade: Somewhat Correct. Analysis: Renewable energy has grown significantly, though regenerative technology isn’t “everywhere.” Renewable energy sources accounted for 29% of global electricity generation in 2023, with significant growth in energy storage solutions.
#15 - Regenerative DNA farms will abound. Many people will have registered their DNA with a variety of medical companies that will guarantee to provide a personalized body implant on demand. Knee replacements are made of bio-tissue that is based on your DNA. Hip replacements customized to your particular weight and balance profile — based on information from last week. By 2025, some 30% of the typical body mass was artificially grown… Claude.AI: Regenerative DNA Farms. Grade: Somewhat Correct . Analysis: While not exactly as described, bioprinting and personalized medicine have advanced significantly. The global 3D bioprinting market reached $1.9 billion in 2023, with the successful printing of tissues and simple organs. However, complex organ printing remains challenging.
From “The Trends Scorecard: Agriculture & Food - What I Predicted, and What Actually Happened” (June 2026)
I started speaking to agricultural audiences back when “the future of farming” still sounded like science fiction to a lot of the people in the room. The thesis never really changed. A new generation would take over the family farm, they would bring the technology habits of the gaming and smartphone era with them, and the entire industry would move from intuition to data, from daylight to round-the-clock, from mass production to mass customization. I said it on a lot of stages, and I wrote it down so it could be checked later. Here is one of the moments where I planted the flag, looking back from 2021 at where this all began: “Get ready for a world of real-time, autonomous, spatial intelligence farming!”
In a long 2019 piece looking ahead to 2030, I wrote the future of agriculture as if I were already living in it. Continuous farming, autonomous machines, and a tech-native generation running the whole thing under one umbrella concept: “Rather than farming when the sun is up, we’ve moved to a world of continuous 24 hour farming, aided by robotics, autonomous self-driving technology, and virtualized farming platforms based on Farmville concepts. The entire process goes by the name ‘real time spatial intelligence farming.’ A continuous flood of new technologies has come into the industry, supported by the arrival of the tech-generation who has taken over the family and industrial farm: things such as weed zapping laserbots, virtual tractors, drone seeding copters and more.”
If I am grading myself with a straight face, the prediction I have to flag is the one where I let the future run ahead of the kitchen. In that same 2019 look at 2030, I described food itself as fully personalized, grown and matched to your individual biology: “We used to eat the same food that everyone else ate. Now, we eat food that is grown specifically for our particular DNA, and matched to our particular metabolic profile, based upon real time insight from monitoring technology built into our smart phone and clothing.”
Read the full pieces on jimcarroll.com:
Daily Inspiration: “It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!”
Daily Inspiration: (Grading My 2014 Predictions About 2025) - “Sometimes you need not be right you just need to be bold!”
The Trends Scorecard: Agriculture & Food - What I Predicted, and What Actually Happened