It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!
— Jim Carroll
Original 2021 statement: Most major shopping malls of today won’t fulfill that function tomorrow - they’ll be something else altogether. We don’t yet know what.
What Jim has written about this
From “Daily Inspiration: “It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!”” (January 2023)
With that in mind, here’s an older post I wrote some years ago, ’ 101 Things We Know About Our Future’ - An Esoteric List of Things That Are Happening Now and Next! ’ It provides some food for thought on what we might be thinking about as we move from triage to tomorrow!
Machines are starting to think on their own a bit more. We don’t yet know what this means.
Much of what you know today is already obsolete - you just don’t know it yet
From “Daily Inspiration: “A 2 year old of today will use technology tomorrow that is yet to be invented, and which only exists as the figment of someone’s imagination!”” (July 2017)
“A 2 year old of today will use technology tomorrow that is yet to be invented, and which only exists as the figment of someone’s imagination” - Futurist Jim Carroll
‘’One day - maybe even today — a child will be born who will never use a steering wheel, because the car will drive itself. They won’t even buy a car — they’ll simply share one from a sharing service. They won’t ever fill up a gas tank, but will always plug in the car to be recharged. They won’t know about paper maps, because they will have long disappeared. They will drive down a road that has streetlights that fulfill multiple purposes — they’ll be fitbits for cities, smart chargers for electric cars, wi-fi hot spots, and intelligent highway traffic manager monitors. Not your grandfathers streetlight!
From “Daily Inspiration: Being Unique - “Rebel today. Define tomorrow.”” (July 2024)
Think about it - unique people know how to better align to the future, by having more understanding of future trends. Once they know and accept those trends, they don’t act like everyone else - they refuse to conform. And so while everyone else is busy dealing with the challenges of today, they are busy innovating around the trends that define tomorrow, to turn those trends into opportunities!
Being unique means understanding that tomorrow will be very different from today, and that to get there successfully, you would do better to define that tomorrow rather than simply being someone who arrives there . It means taking the bold, brash steps that often come with the need to accomplish gut-wrenching change - courage that most other people don’t have. It involves understanding the trends that will let you define tomorrow - rather than having someone define it for you.
Decisiveness : In fact, those who are unique are ready to jump on key trends when they emerge - they don’t hesitate to make the decisions necessary to get there. They have a mindset that drives them forward to tomorrow, while everyone else is still busy trying to figure out how to cope with ‘today.
Read the full pieces on jimcarroll.com:
Daily Inspiration: “It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!”
Daily Inspiration: “A 2 year old of today will use technology tomorrow that is yet to be invented, and which only exists as the figment of someone’s imagination!”
Daily Inspiration: Being Unique - “Rebel today. Define tomorrow.”