I took a photo of some movie that was on TV about 10 years ago, seeing what looks like an Acorn computer of some sort on the desk, and this is what I got. I'm not really sure what's going on here and I'm equally unsure if I want to know.

""It’s the unknown unknowns that will get you every time!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

On February 12, 2002, United States Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld answered a question at a U.S. Department of Defence (DoD) news briefing about the lack of evidence linking the government of Iraq with the supply of weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups. His answer has since answered the lexicon of lore, as many people thought that it was fully intended to shield the department from any sort of criticism.

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones."

His answer, though, was based on what is known as the "Awareness-understanding matrix", which provides that there are known knowns, known unknowns, unknown knows, and unknown unknowns. Complicated but helpful - when you study it, it makes sense. Things we are aware of and understand; things we are aware of but don't understand; things we are not aware of but understand or know implicitly; and then, the things we are neither aware of nor understand.

In that context, later this morning I'll speak to a room full of insurance CEOs and other senior executives from the industry at a major insurance conference. To get ready for the event, I grabbed about 1,500 articles about the latest trends impacting the insurance industry and used Google Notebook to analyze these articles for key bits of insight.

I will be speaking, among many other issues, about the future of insurance risk, and in that context, will impress upon them that it's the "unknown unknowns" they should worry about - the things they are neither aware of nor understand.

What are those unknown unknowns? In a brief moment of inspiration, I fed it this prompt, in effect asking the AI to analyze these 1500 articles and summarize them.

This is what it came back with, which I worked into my slide deck:

"The insurance industry is caught in a whirlwind: climate volatility, liability inflation, data chaos, talent scarcity, and relentless regulatory pressures, all while battling public mistrust and the nagging fear that tomorrow's risks are growing faster than our capacity to cover them”

That pretty much summarizes my slide deck!

Futurist Jim Carroll has spoken at over 200 insurance and risk-related events throughout the years.

**#Uncertainty** **#Risk** **#Insurance** **#Future** **#Unknown** **#Innovation** **#Technology** **#Preparedness** **#Disruption** **#Awareness**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/03/daily-inspiration-the-future-of-insurance-its-the-unknown-unknowns-that-will-get-you-every-time/

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A quotation from George R. R. Martin

   “Knowledge is what man is all about. People like you have tried to hold back progress since the beginning of time. But they failed, and you failed. Man needs to know.”
   “Maybe,” Sanders said, “But is that the only thing man needs? I don’t think so. I think he also needs mystery, and poetry, and romance. I think he needs a few unanswered questions, to make him brood and wonder.”

George R. R. Martin (b. 1948) American author and screenwriter [George Raymond Richard Martin]
“With Morning Comes Mistfall,” Analog (1973-05)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-george-r-r/74…

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When a man awakens from a coma only to discover that someone has taken on his identity, he teams up with a young woman to prove who he is.
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"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; The other is to refuse to accept what is true." ~ #unknown

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#Introduction

I am a poet and aware
Of some of the baggage
That comes with That

I belong to a protected class
And a gender, and I am aware
of that debt, Inherited and still owed

I am in love with us
And the temple we call Earth
I despair in our hatred

I create
Because that is when
I know the Universe

So now I am
#Introduced
and still #unknown

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Created in @Blender
3D, 2160 X 4096, 2025

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Wisdom of the day, by #unknown