In January 2025, Jim Carroll revisited the 25 predictions he had published in December 2014 and graded each call. This scorecard preserves that retrospective as structured foresight evidence.
Scorecard
25 Trends for 2025: 2014 Forecast Scorecard
A retrospective grading of 25 predictions Jim Carroll published in 2014 about the year 2025.
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| Publish Date | 2025-01-03 |
| Updated Date | 2026-09-18 |
| Subject Type | overall |
| Period | 2014–2025 |
| Grade | Retrospective review |
Receipts
Graded predictions
- Cash will have all but disappeared
- Africa will have ceased to be a rural continent
- Much of the world has 'gone up
- We'll see the first human live to the age of 150
- A constant stream of bio-connectivity data drives healthcare decisions
- The fastest-growing profession involves people known as 'personal health concierges
- Plants will 'talk' to us
- The concept of TV as a 'physical device' has disappeared
- Micro nationals dominate global markets
- Re-generative energy technology is everywhere; it's transformative, storable, re-usable
- Poll-democracy takes flight
- Paper is really something 'from the olden days'
- Grown up! The first 12-generation family is part of earth society
- Crowd thinking has replaced most forms of peer research
- Regenerative DNA farms will abound
- The package is the product
- What we did for heart health in the 20th century, we did for brain health in 2025
- Most industries have gone upside down
- The concept of an education degree has come to an end; "just-in-time knowledge factories" dominate...
- The electrical grid of the early 21st century is gone; micro-grids dominate energy supply and use
- Sub-Saharan Africa emerged as the world's new China
- Light has been stopped in its tracks
- Domain names disappeared
- Apple is delisted
- Jim Carroll shoots his age! In golf
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