Besucht uns heute auf dem Marktplatz des #transform_d Summit!
Das Team des Civic Data Lab freut sich darauf, mit Euch ins Gespräch zu kommen: Erfahrt mehr darüber, wie wir mit Daten #sozialeInnovation voranbringen, tauscht euch über die Rolle von #Dateninfrastruktur für organisationale #Transformation aus und teilt Eure eigenen Projekterfahrungen mit uns!
Schaut gerne an unserem Stand vorbei – wir freuen uns auf spannende Begegnungen und inspirierende Gespräche.
"You can always find hope for the future by carefully examining the opportunities it is always showing you. (Just remember to always keep looking!)" - Futurist Jim Carroll
The most popular post on my Website has to do with the 'growth of knowledge.', from my 2023 trends series.
In it, I lay out the basic statistics and observations having to do with that trend - but also outline what it means. In simple terms:
"It used to be about what you know. Now it’s not only about what you know, but how fast you need to know it!"
I also make note of this observation:
"The volume of medical knowledge was doubling every 8 years before Covid; it’s now doubling every 78 days."
Fast forward - things are moving even faster still. No one in any career knows everything they need to know - our ability to get the right knowledge at the right time - what I call just-in-time knowledge - is one of the most important career skills need to continually develop and enhance.
With that thought in mind, I was taking a look at the current widespread destruction of the future all around us - science shutting down, valuable research programs being decimated, and careers and jobs being destroyed with reckless abandonment. There is a chainsaw being taken to the future, and its destructive damage is yet to be determined. In the context of such a crazy world, how do those of us who want to ensure we have hope for tomorrow continue to sustain that hope, feed it, and nurture it? By keeping an eye on the good things that are out there and that might somehow survive!
This brings me to how I am using my relentless study of the trends of tomorrow to sustain my hope for tomorrow, albeit while doing so in the era of the information flood. To do that, I'm turning to, of course, AI. Here's a good example: for years, I've subscribed to many different trend newsletters, each of which is carefully filtered and goes into a folder in my email account. I try to get to them when I can, but I often fall behind. One I track is Ground Truths by Eric Topol - it's a great, fairly regular update on important trends in healthcare science.
Searching for some hope for the future of medicine and healthcare the other day, I took a look and realized I had 194 long messages from him about these issues- far too many to read! Google Notebook LLM to the rescue! I took them all, worked them into a PDF, and 'fed it to the machine.,' With a few iterations, I got back the summary below - a nice, tidy, short, and concise overview of some of the key trends he has been talking about, and why this matters for our future.
Far easier to digest, scan, and read - and provide me a short, sharp shock of hope!
This brings me back to the main point of today's post - in the face of volatile turmoil, we need to feed and further our hope for the future.
How we do this doesn't matter - the mechanics are quite irreverent, but use the tools if you can. I am!
You can always find hope for the future by carefully examining the opportunities it is always showing you.
You just need to remember to always keep looking!
#Hope #Future #Innovation #Opportunity #Knowledge #Healthcare #Technology #AI #Science #Transformation
Respekt:
Das Miniatur-Wunderland in Hamburg zeigt in Zusammenarbeit mit der Telekom und Wissenschaftlern wie Mojib Latif die Folgen des Klimawandels in unterschiedlichen Temperatur-Szenarien.
#klimawandel #klima #klimaschutz #transformation #telekom #miniaturwunderland #energiewende
Heute Abend: LIVE Online #Konzert mit Violetta Parisini
- gefühlvolle öst. #SingerSongwriter mit Tiefe & Verletzlichkeit!
...zum Abschluss unseres 9. Online Summit zum Thema #REGENERATION - Kraft für eine lebendige Welt.
Offen für alle: https://pioneersofchange-summit.org/calendarentry/abschluss-2025/
Es ist immer wieder schockierend, wie erfolgreich und organisiert gegen Klimaschutz vorgegangen und der Klimawandel geleugnet wird.
Wieder einmal lesenswert aufbereitet von @correctiv_org
#transformation #klimawandel #klimaschutz #fakenews #energiewende #verkehrswende #artenschutz #grune #demokratie
https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/klimawandel/2025/03/25/klimaleugner-im-hoehenflug/
A brief look back at the first day of the Kiel Conference @kieluni. Then it's straight on to today's scientific programme: https://events.kielconference25.smart-abstract.com/#/grid/2025-03-25
#KielScales25 #Archaeology #PastScocieties #Transformation
I choose you! Dracozolt!?
Pokémon TF sketch for nam.cervine.tech
Als Gesellschaft sind wir süchtig nach Transformationen und Vorher-Nachher Vergleichen. Auch ich habe immer wieder Transition Timelines gepostet.
Was steckt dahinter?
Wieso denke ich, dass gerade uns trans Personen diese ewig trendenden Vergleiche schaden?
Teilen wäre toll!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZwzDRui5CU
„Gletscherschmelze bedroht das Überleben der Menschheit“ - u.a. durch Austrocknen der Flüsse, Ausfall Trinkwasser, Artensterben, Anstieg Meeresspiegel, Einfluss auf Golfstrom.
… aber nee, is zu komplex & grünes Thema - lass uns lieber über Migration & Bürgergeld reden…
#klimawandel #klima #klimaschutz #transformation #artenschutz #grune #cdu
"Where the minds go, the future follows" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Let's talk about how once great nations lose their place in the global R&D background, and as a result, lose their future!
In 2009, I was the opening keynote speaker for the annual PMDA conference on innovation - with a talk on the 'hollowing out of corporate R&D." As noted on their site, "The Product Development and Management Association is a global community of professional members whose skills, expertise and experience power the most recognized and respected innovative companies in the world." The association membership includes key individuals involved in R&D for the 3M's, Duponts, Dow and other industrial powerhouses of the world.
They asked for a hard-hitting message on how the US was losing its position as the pre-eminent R&D 'factory' of the world, and I obliged. I took them on that tour, and wrote the blog post "The Hollowing Out of Corporate R&D." Essentially, I told the story of how the US was losing its dominance as other (mostly Asian) companies took the lead, as open source innovation took on new momentum, and small collaboration was beating 'big collaboration.'
Fast forward - we now have a nation that is turning its back on science, as it shutters entire R&D arms of government, as many begin to reject the essence of science itself, and as immigration and other policies begin to attack the individuals who undertake scientific research. This never ends well. Scientists will always pursue their work in the nations that welcome them, and which create an environment that is conducive to their slow, collaborative research.
History shows what happens when industrial or government policies decimate R&D.
The minds of science develop the future - the discoveries that are made fuel the innovations that are pursued which create the products that evolve. Keep in mind my key mantra for tomorrow: "Companies that do not yet exist will build products not yet conceived using materials not yet invented with methodologies not yet in existence with ideas yet to be imagined." That context provides the factory for the future, the jobs of tomorrow, and the possibilities for companies and nations to thrive. Thrive they won't when science is rejected.
In that context, how is global R&D science changing today compared to the trends I spoke about years ago? The "hollowing out" of traditional corporate R&D has accelerated, creating a more globally distributed innovation landscape where the U.S. maintains strength in software and AI but has lost ground in manufacturing innovation and materials science
And all this has happened before the nation decided to turn its back on science.
What's the future impact? Where the minds move, the future follows!
**#Innovation** **#Research** **#Science** **#Future** **#Global** **#Transformation** **#Competition** **#Knowledge** **#Technology** **#Investment**
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/03/daily-inspiration-the-hollowing-out-of-rd-where-the-minds-go-the-future-follows/
"The most extraordinary futures often begin with the unplanned detours that happen along the way!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Believe in serendipity and happenstance, because you never know what might happen! That's because your greatest expertise may not be where you first planted your flag, but where curiosity led you to explore!
That's how ChatGPT summarized a profile article about me that just came out. And it's wonderful wisdom that very much seems to match my mindset!
The article, "The Accidental Oracle," appears in the spring issue of Pivot Magazine, which goes out to over 220,000 Canadian Chartered Professional Accountants. You can access the PDF here. A few comments: The Family Guide to the Internet is still available on YouTube, and yes, it's embarrassing. Unlike the article suggests, I did 'rock and roll and party all night' - while doing my stint as an auditor while on the road, I served as a DJ at the local pub. I don't know how I ever survived. And yes, I did a short stint with KISS!
Enjoy! I did!
See the full article in the post.
#Serendipity #Career #Pivot #Future #Opportunity #Journey #Expertise #Adaptability #Unexpected #Transformation
Wenn eine Fee mir drei Wünsche freistellen würde, wäre meine Antwort: Mehr Maja Göpel, weniger Friedrich Merz!
Und das drei Mal.
"Sometimes the future kicks you into tomorrow faster than you expected!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Let's talk about the rise of humanoid robots in 2025.
I told my wife the other day that within 5 years, I'm probably going to be bringing one into our home. She is not amused. Such is the life of living with a futurist! The image in today's inspiration is of the Unitree G1, a robot from one of one of the hottest start-ups in China. They purport to offer the robot for sale on their Website for about USD 16,000, and given the pace of change, buying one for a few thousand dollars sometime in the future might not be farfetched.
You can't use your credit card to buy it directly online yet, but if you like, you can buy its counterpart, the Unitree Go2, for about USD 2,800. Enter your credit card, provide shipping details, and the fun begins!
Such is the state of the humanoid robotic industry in 2025. Suffice it to say, it's moving fast.
As with any development in the hype-driven technology industry, you have to take all of this with a bit of a grain of salt, but suffice it to say, things are happening.
I'll admit I've long been a skeptic of developments in this particular aspect of robotics - it's always seemed a little too close to science fiction to be real. And yet, things are evolving quickly. Yet I shared this slide the other day at an event where I was speaking about the future of healthcare, and the crazy idea that we might one day see such devices emerge within the industry.
Essentially, four key trends are coming together all at once. First, there is a LOT of venture capital money flowing into the industry. With that, we are starting to see the typical cost reduction curve we see with any new technology. Third, there's a lot of development with software and technology occurring out in the open-source community, and that type of collaboration always drives the future forward faster. Finally, one of the most fascinating trends has to do with the arrival of digital training tools - essentially, software that allows you to train your robot to do what you want it to do (such as the often-used example of washing the dishes.)
Many are comparing this to a "ChatGPT moment" for robotics, with a potential turning point coming by 2027 or the late 2020s.
Read more!
**#Robotics** **#Humanoid** **#Innovation** **#Technology** **#Future** **#Investment** **#Automation** **#AI** **#Development** **#Transformation**
Fedi likes dragons right? Here's a fresh TF Potion for @bluish_gecko get fired-up! | full post on, FA
Metamorphosis
Bonus: Betrayal
Where's the last effigy? What happens if you sentence Josef to death? And why was he arrested in the first place???
Indie game played on Nintendo Switch.
~Watch at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX1tykE6MJc
#Playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9kd-uZiIb9_sUJQDenShtvm38DkLr4Zl
"Lost trust? A lost future!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Let's talk about trust - or rather, the lack of it.
Somewhere along the way, I came across the 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer 2025 - it's worth a look.
The fact is, it's a pretty depressing read! They call it a crisis of grievance. As I've been saying - that tracks.
What are the findings? 3 key facts.
Fact 1: Majority hold grievances against government, business, and the rich
Sixty-one percent globally have a moderate or high sense of grievance, which is defined by a belief that government and business make their lives harder and serve narrow interests, and wealthy people benefit unfairly from the system.
Fact 2: Widespread grievance is eroding trust across the board
Those with a high sense of grievance distrust all four institutions (business, government, media, and NGOs).
Fact 3: Hostile activism is seen as a legitimate tool to drive change
To bring about change, 4 in 10 would approve of one or more of the following forms of hostile activism: attacking people online, intentionally spreading disinformation, threatening or committing violence, damaging public or private property. This sentiment is most prevalent among respondents ages 18-34 (53 percent approve of at least one).
The report makes plain that over a decade of crises have helped to fuel this crisis of grievance.
So where does it leave us? We are witnessing nothing short of a societal transformation – one driven by a profound crisis of grievance that threatens to reshape our institutions, our economy, and our very future! And we all know we are living through this in real-time, since we know that a mindset of grievance is driving a lot of the change swirling around us right now.
What can we conclude? Several things. Keep reading!
**#Trust** **#Grievance** **#Inequality** **#Activism** **#Future** **#Leadership** **#Change** **#Economy** **#Institutions** **#Transformation**
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/03/daily-inspiration-the-acceleration-of-grievance-lost-trust-a-lost-future/
#Gruene so: Ey lass mal 300 Milliarden gezielt in #Transformation der Wirtschaft aktiv investieren, Zukunftstechnologien, Klimaneutralität und vor allem in die Jugend!
Alle: "
Och nö die grünen Traumtänzer wieder, 0 Wirtschaftskompetenz, die Schulden werden uns umbringen, schnell abwählen!"
Groko so: "Lass mal eine Billion in Rentner, Steuergeschenke und Autobahnen investieren, Rentner sind die Zukunft!"
Alle: "Woah, diese Union ist einfach so wirtschaftskompetent, WAHNSINN!"
ΘΔ 
