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One Year Later: Digital Twinning

One year ago, in June 2025, I published Megatrend #4: Digital Twinning as part of my 30 Megatrends series.

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Publish Date2026-08-10
Updated Date2026-09-18
Observed Date2026-08-10
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Observed in Jim Carroll’s archive on August 10, 2026.

One year ago, in June 2025, I published Megatrend #4: Digital Twinning as part of my 30 Megatrends series.

Source: Megatrends One Year Later – #4: Digital Twinning – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening.

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TrendsDigital TwinningDigital twins move experimentation into a virtual environment where products, facilities and systems can be modeled before physical change occurs.IndustriesManufacturing & IndustrialManufacturing is becoming an intelligent, adaptive system in which software, robotics, materials science and data increasingly define physical production.IndustriesConstruction & Real EstateThe built environment is becoming intelligent: designed in software, built with increasing automation and operated as a connected, energy-aware system.IndustriesAutomotive & TransportationThe vehicle is becoming a computer, a battery, a data platform and an increasingly autonomous node inside a larger mobility system.IndustriesEnergy & UtilitiesThe grid is shifting from centralized delivery toward a distributed, storage-rich, software-defined energy platform.IndustriesHealthcare, Pharma & Life SciencesHealthcare is moving from episodic treatment toward continuous prediction, personalization and accelerated biological discovery.DomainsComputing & DataThe computing, data and digital infrastructure that makes new forms of intelligence, simulation and automation possible.DomainsRobotics & ManufacturingRobotics, automation, digital manufacturing and new production systems that connect software intelligence to the physical world.DomainsCities & InfrastructureSmart infrastructure, urban reinvention, resilient systems and the technology reshaping how places are built and operated.

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ARTICLE · Sun Aug 09Megatrends One Year Later – #4: Digital Twinning – What I Predicted, and What's Actually Happening