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Innovating In the Face of Relentless Volatility

A futurist must always be a relentless optimist, particularly on stage. We've been engaged to provide a tour of the future that provides our audience a sense of hope and opportunity. As I will often joke, I can't go in front of a 1,000 people and start out by saying, "Guess what! Your future sucks!"

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Publish Date	2019-01-23
Updated Date	2026-09-18
Horizon	now
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Originally published as 19 Trends for 2019: #16 Innovating In the Face of Relentless Volatility on January 23, 2019.

This record preserves item #16 in Jim Carroll’s 19 Trends For 2019 series as a structured historical trend in the futurist.info knowledge graph.

A futurist must always be a relentless optimist, particularly on stage. We’ve been engaged to provide a tour of the future that provides our audience a sense of hope and opportunity. As I will often joke, I can’t go in front of a 1,000 people and start out by saying, “Guess what! Your future sucks!”

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