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Social – Local – Mobile (SoLoMo): empowerment or enslavement?
Nice infographic via mashable The tug of war between between empowered and being enslaved, between convenience and surveillance, between algorithms and humarithms will be a...
Please consider crowd-funding this project: Shift 2020 – How Technology Will Impact Our Future (via Rudy De Waele on Kickstarter)
Shift 2020 – How Technology Will Impact Our Future by Rudy De Waele — Kickstarter. I am involved as a contributor and a funder, as...
12
Dec 2013
New video: heading towards 2020 – what’s our future? Key trends, foresights, memes (and more on ‘Ego to Eco’)
I actually recorded this ‘2020 foresights' video in October 2012 to contribute to a project headed by Daniel Egger at Foltigo (Sao Paulo, Brazil), therefore...
12
Dec 2013
New video: my complete keynote speech on the future of the Internet, ICT and Technology at ITU World 2013 in Bangkok
This video just arrived today, and it includes the entire Q&A session as well. You can download the slides and read more about this gig...
11
Dec 2013
Swiss friends: meet me at these Swiss Marketing Association events in Bern and Zürich January 16 & 17, 2014 (GfM Brush Up zum Jahresauftakt)
Gesellschaft für Marketing: GfM Brush Up zum Jahresauftakt mit Gerd Leonhard, Futurist, Author, CEO of The Futures Agency These events will be held in German...
10
Dec 2013
▶ Why Care About the NSA? – Brian Knappenberger Video (NYT)
▶ Why Care About the NSA? – Brian Knappenberger Op-Doc – YouTube. Nice video, really made me think ... Read more
10
Dec 2013
My guest post on CNN International: Siri says ‘dump him’? How mobile devices could run (or ruin) your life (Spanish version, as well)
CNN International just published a guest post by me, here, on how the key technology trends will impact us in the next 5 years. The...
09
Dec 2013
10 diabolical businesses Google could launch (Via Steve Faktor and Linkedin)
Good read – makes you think about how technology needs to connect to ethics… Employment & Credit Screening. Great companies start with great people. But...
07
Dec 2013
New video: Keynote Presentation at DAFM2013: A Futuristic Outlook On The Music Creator, Consumer & The Business In Between
I think this is one of my best talks yet, on the apparently ever-green topic of the Future of the Music business:). The SKAP /...
06
Dec 2013
The inevitable result of the digitization of content and media is dramatically ‘per unit’ revenue- but 1000x users
… a key slide from my last presentation on the future of music, see more details here. ... Read more
06
Dec 2013
• Chart: Americans Consume 60 Hours of Electronic Media per Week (via Statista)
• Chart: Americans Consume 60 Hours of Electronic Media per Week | Statista. Imho, we will be seeing some dramatic shifts here, primarily on radio...
06
Dec 2013
How the NSA is tracking people right now, via The Washington Post (unbelievable, really)
How the NSA is tracking people right now – The Washington Post. Check this out. Information Superiority is everything I guess. ... Read more
05
Dec 2013
Check out my Flipboard magazine – a great new way to share my findings
FuturistGerd: all my shared findings – Flipboard. ... Read more
03
Dec 2013
Why micro-content is big business (some of my comments via Oisin Lunny, TheGuardian): it’s about Attention not Distribution:)
Oisin Lunny just contributed an interesting post in TheGuardian Media Network quoting some of my comments on the future of content and advertising: Indeed, the current economics...
