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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 20:08:28 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   Daily Inspiration: "At what point will you realize your budget and your expectations are greatly misaligned?" - Futurist Jim Carroll

   Most people want a BMW on a Ford Focus budget.

   They are underfunded and over-expectated.

   Think about it.

   Most companies want a vastly different future and have a desire to chase new opportunities, but aren't prepared to invest in it.

   Leadership teams want to accelerate the capabilities and skill set of their teams but aren't prepared to fund the steps necessary to do this.
   Innovation-oriented groups want to accelerate the R&D that is necessary to discover the ideas of tomorrow but are always limited by the spending blocks put in place by the number-crunching bosses.

   Associations and membership-oriented groups want to do more to prepare their members for tomorrow but are never prepared to do what is necessary to get there.

   The mindset of penny-pinching blocks everyone from moving forward, meaning that they end up moving backward as time moves relentlessly on.

   This is one of the biggest challenges I see in what I do day to day. I regularly get inquiries from leadership groups who believe it's necessary that they take big, bold leaps into a new and different future. They plan a meeting somewhere to discuss and debate these issues and believe it's necessary to find someone to give them unique insight, to give an in-depth trends insight into their meeting. But they aren't prepared to spend money to do this.

   I often feel like cheekily responding with this line: "I'm sorry I cannot donate my services for free to you at this time in your pursuit of making more money." But I don't - because I know that someone else will come along who is prepared to invest in tomorrow in order to get to tomorrow. I'll still get to the number of planned events I am willing to take on - they'll end up with some pretty marginal insight and will end up wasting a lot of their time.

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2023/10/daily-inspiration-trends-opportunity-beyond-every-problem-is-an-idea-that-fixes-it/

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 19:26:27 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   Daily Inspiration: "In just a few short years, you'll wonder how you ever survived without your personal knowledge butler by your side!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

   Remember when you never had a smartphone? It's probably tough to do.

   But think about the number of devices and technologies that an iPhone or other smartphone has replaced. It's staggering to think about.

   Can you remember those years in which you didn't have an iPhone at your side?

   Fast forward a few years. You'll be thinking the same thing with AI.

   AI is accelerating at a ridiculous pace In just the last few weeks, anyone who is paying for GPT Pro at $20 a month will be getting what people are calling ChatGPT Vision.In essence, take a picture, and let ChatGPT tell you about it.

   Using your phone, go take a picture of something; for example I took a picture of our fridge contents - and asked for an idea on a healthy snack, based on what ChatGPT sees in the image.

   Next, while working out in my home gym, I asked it to take a look at a bit of my gym equipment, and generate a workout plan based on what it saw. It responded with a multi-page description - in seconds.

   Then, I aimed it at one of the security cameras I have in place, asking if it might write me a program in Python (a programming language) that I could use to automatically grab an image every 5 minutes and store it on one of my home servers.

   Cast your mind out one year, two years, five years - and imagine this type of thing being integrated into all the technology that surrounds you.

   When you got your first smartphone, you had no idea as to how powerful it might become to you; no idea on the role it would take on in your life; no concept of how indispensable it might become.

   The same thing is happening right now with AI - and in a few years, you'll sit back and go 'Whoah!'

   The future is fast. Jump in, buckle up, and get ready for the ride!

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2023/10/daily-inspiration-trends-opportunity-beyond-every-problem-is-an-idea-that-fixes-it/