Today’s gamer is tomorrow’s virtual project manager!
— Jim Carroll
Original 2021 statement: Many of the trucks in the industrialized world today will be driven by virtual drivers on the other side of the world tomorrow
What Jim has written about this
From “Daily Inspiration: ""Today’s gamer is tomorrow’s virtual project manager!”” (May 2022)
Farmville redefines farming. Fortnite leads to virtual welding. League of Legends leads to digital twin virtual surgery. Joysticks and controllers define the future of cobot interaction. Fine-tuned Grand Theft Auto driving skills will lead to the design of remote autonomous vehicle management. Unique motor and cranial skills honed on short, sharp shocks of tiny strategic movements lead to tomorrow’s robotic-assisted surgery These kids playing computer games are actually accelerating our future virtual world,m because the skills they have picked up within the gaming world are coming into the workplace, and will redefine the world of work, careers, and industries.
You can’t discount the impact of this trend. We are on the edge of the era of 24-hour farming because the autonomous farm of tomorrow need not be farmed only when the sun is up - and some kids will design and run the farm of tomorrow just like they do in Farmville today. We might see a time when we will see millions of truck driver jobs go overseas because the next generation of trucks with no doors and no windows - and no driver - might be driven by someone in a virtual headset thousands of miles away. We will definitely see medical surgery that involves digital twin technology that provides for the virtualization of healthcare, with a doctor thousands of miles away guiding delicate instruments. The metaverse? It won’t happen with weird, clunky headsets, but with heads-up display technology much like we see in today’s fighter jets, providing a link between the physical and virtual world in a small and unobtrusive way.
From “Daily Inspiration: “It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!”” (January 2023)
Most regulatory bodies will continue to act slowly in a fast-paced world - and the disconnect of today will have bigger implications tomorrow
Much like you might have a domain name or email address today, tomorrow you’ll have your very own light spectrum on the infinite fiber-optic Internet, which will be reserved solely for your encrypted use on global optical networks
The world of science will have taken us from 19 million known chemical substances today to 5 billion by 2100 - and this will lead to the birth of countless new billion-dollar industries
From “Trend: In Trucking, Air Traffic Control Towers Are the New Offices!” (March 2017)
A few years ago, Volvo/Mack Trucks had me in for a series of leadership and dealer meetings, where I noted that “in the world of trucking, connectivity is the new horsepower.” Given those stats above, that much is true!
Autonomous trucks is part of that ear, according to Carroll, who declared that trucking would be the first to move to fully autonomous vehicles because it made financial sense to do so since drivers account for one-third of the operational costs pie.
Read the full pieces on jimcarroll.com:
Daily Inspiration: ""Today’s gamer is tomorrow’s virtual project manager!”
Daily Inspiration: “It’s time to move from triage to tomorrow!”
Trend: In Trucking, Air Traffic Control Towers Are the New Offices!