Megatrend **#30** - The Acceleration Paradox: "As change accelerates exponentially, our challenge is to steer this incredible power toward a more humane and hopeful future, rather than increasing the destructive impacts we've seen so far!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
(Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series on 30 Megatrends, which he first outlined in his book Dancing in the Rain: How Bold Leaders Grow Stronger in Stormy Times. The trends were shared in the book as a way of demonstrating that, despite any period of economic volatility, there is always long-term opportunity to be found. The book is now in print - learn more at dancing.jimcarroll.com)
We live in a time of incredible promise and yet one of terrible peril.
We are the most advanced species we have ever been, and yet, we are ultimately capable of not living up to the demands for success that history places upon us.
It seems that we are failing the test.
As someone who has built his career on. The issue of speed - how leaders can align to it, companies can adapt to it, and people can respond to it - I thought it fitting that the final megatrend in my series should have to do with this issue. Right now, accelerating technological change is reshaping our world, creating unprecedented progress and fueling significant societal instability and risk. The coming decade will intensify this trend, demanding we adapt to steer progress and manage systemic risks.
So what's it all about? The world is changing at an unprecedented pace, a phenomenon I call the Acceleration Paradox. We are witnessing not just incremental progress but an exponential surge in technological capabilities that presents both incredible opportunities and profound challenges. Put it another way, we're doing well at discovering new things, but aren't good at dealing with the reality of those things. Your PDF for the full report is here.
https://pdf.jimcarroll.com/Megatrend30-TheAccelerationParadox.pdf
We are, as they say, living in the best of times, but doing our best to make it the worst of times!
Let's start here by considering just a few of the things around us that keep moving faster, and then consider how it is all going off the rails as entire nations turn their back on the promise of tomorrow.
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Futurist Jim Carroll has focused on the issue of 'speed' in many of his books: The Future Belongs to Those Who Are Fast; Thing Big, Start Small, Scale Fast; and Ready, Set Done. Even his book, What I Learned from Frogs in Texas, featured a quirky story of what happens when you don't align yourself with the speed of change.
**#Acceleration** **#Paradox** **#Technology** **#Change** **#Innovation** **#Progress** **#Disruption** **#Future** **#Adaptation** **#Speed**
The Grandfather Paradox
It's easier to do stuff when you're born.
https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-grandfather-paradox.html
#Buddhism, #cœnobite, #Esperanto, #FudoMyōō, #hermitpractice, #Hinduism, #India, #koan, #monastery, #paradox, #starfish
Ja, ja, wieder KI-Kritik aber wann sehen dies auch mal deren gedankenlose User*innen ein?!
»Paradox – Je länger KIs nachdenken, desto dümmer werden sie:
Eine neue Anthropic-Studie zeigt ein überraschendes Phänomen - KI-Modelle werden bei längeren Denkprozessen schlechter statt besser. Das sogenannte "Inverse Scaling" betrifft führende Modelle wie Claude und ChatGPT und das hat Folgen.«
McDonald’s AI Hiring Tool McHire Leaked Data of 64 Million Job Seekers https://hackread.com/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-tool-mchire-leaked-job-seekers-data/ #Cybersecurity #Vulnerability #Security #McDonald #Privacy #Paradox #Leaks #IDOR #AI
Well, luckily your household is one of the best-equipped to handle such paradoxes.
Paradoxi?
Very interesting: These 17 Paradoxes Will Change How You See the Universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrJA0J7jciY (24:02)
Reminds me of Socratic paradox “I know that I know nothing”.
The fact that certain people are alive is absolute proof that no one in our timeline ever invents time travel.
“false dichotomies around the artificial polarization of complex issues into two opposed camps. You’re either focused on immediate relief or systemic change. You’re either practical or idealistic. You’re either working within the system or fighting against it.”
“What if the emotional resonance of specific, concrete actions is precisely what builds the coalition necessary for systemic change?”
IGN has published a new article, in which the probably next game from #Paradox is discussed. It seems to be another historical grand strategy game (nobody is surprised), and has so far the codename "Caesar".
Apparently the announcement video will be published on May 8 on the #EuropaUniversalis youtube channel, so the community is expecting #EU5.
You can read the whole article here https://www.ign.com/articles/stellaris-and-crusader-kings-3-dev-paradox-teases-its-next-big-grand-strategy-game-and-fans-think-theyve-worked-out-what-it-is , and discuss it with us here https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/stellaris-and-crusader-kings-3-dev-paradox-teases-its-next-big-grand-strategy-game.697928/
The paradox of Strongman Rule:
The ”stronger” the man on top,
the more submission they require.
The more submissive those below,
the more weakness they let slip.
This is why strongmen always lead their countries to poverty & pitifullness.
#strongmen #paradox
Every #TimeTravel #Paradox Explained in 8 Minutes.
At The #KrononautMoon Project, we long to see real Time Travel in our time, while being painfully aware of the criticisms of the concept. Still, despite its near-hopeless #logic, we are moving ahead with our attempts to contact #TimeTravelers on Thu-Fri Nights of next week. Please join us under the #FullMoon & #TotalLunarEclipse, and share lots of #MoonPhotos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ7hfWtTR_E 2024 Jul 12
https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_paradox
From: blenderdumbass . org
For me personally the word "Tolerance" means something akin to patience. Therefor I don't understand how we arrived at using this word to talk about Freedom. I have already written an article suggesting that it is perhaps a wrong word to use, and something like "Hate" or "Lack of Hate" would be a much better word to describe contemporary ...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_paradox_of_the_paradox_of_tolerance
From: blenderdumbass . org
For me personally the word "Tolerance" means something akin to patience. Therefor I don't understand how we arrived at using this word to talk about Freedom. I have already written an article suggesting that it is perhaps a wrong word to use, and something like "Hate" or "Lack of Hate" would be a much better word to describe contemporary ...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_paradox_of_the_paradox_of_tolerance
@hgbruenker
Vor zwei, drei Jahren erst waren es die Af-dings, die auswandern wollten. Als Arbeiter unter Kollegen hab ich die jeweils kursierenden Verschwörergeschichten erörtert bekommen. Darunter auch von mehreren, die tatsächlich an Auswandern dachten, weil sie die für ihr Empfinden zu viele #Ausländer nicht sehen mochten.
Das #Paradox ,warum sie sich als selber Ausländer dann im Ausland wohler fühlen würden, als wie wenn sie anderen auch eine neue Heimat bei sich gönnten... seltsam
Fermi's Paradox
The SETInstitute, whose business is looking for extraterrestrial intelligence, summarise what they cheerfully refer to as the Fermi Paradox as "if they are out there, why don't we see them" and offer ideas https://www.seti.org/fermi-paradox-0
Some other organisations or web commentators seem to have decided that Fermi had something completely different in mind, or have a clear, different and unhelpful idea of what is a paradox, and go off into weirdness.