Futurist Jim Carroll<p>"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</p><p>The most popular post on my Website has to do with the 'growth of knowledge.', from my 2023 trends series.</p><p>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:</p><p>"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!"</p><p>I also make note of this observation:</p><p>"The volume of medical knowledge was doubling every 8 years before Covid; it’s now doubling every 78 days."</p><p>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.</p><p>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!</p><p>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.<br>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.</p><p>Far easier to digest, scan, and read - and provide me a short, sharp shock of hope!</p><p>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. </p><p>How we do this doesn't matter - the mechanics are quite irreverent, but use the tools if you can. 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