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Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum (that’s putting it mildly) via GigaOM
“Silicon Valley’s biggest failing is not poor marketing of its products, or follow-through on promises, but, rather, the distinct lack of empathy for those whose...
Death Is Optional | Edge.org. Fascinating conversation with YUVAL NOAH HARARI and Daniel Kahnemann
“Once you really solve a problem like direct brain-computer interface ... when brains and computers can interact directly, that's it, that's the end of history,...
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Nov 2016
A key message from my ‘Exponential Change’ film: anything that cannot be digitised or automated becomes extremely valuable !
… and that means HUMAN-ONLY skills and idiosyncrasies Watch the entire film below (4 mins). Download the film (300MB MP4) (OK to reuse under...
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Nov 2016
Update: complete video and presentation: Gerd Leonhard at the Smart Port Rotterdam Conference: the future in a nutshell
… as promised here are the slides ! More details about this event. 10-year-future-smartport-rotterdam-gerd-leonhard-futurist-public-low-res 20 MB PDF SmartPort will be hosting its first SmartPort Summit...
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Nov 2016
Watching the World Rot at Europe’s Largest Tech Conference / must read !!
“You can go further. In the accounts given by philosophers like Bernard Stiegler, the human stands on the point of vanishing entirely; we become something...
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Nov 2016
When her best friend died, she used artificial intelligence to keep talking to him – great story on memorial bots
“Memorial bots — even the primitive ones that are possible using today’s technology — seemed both inevitable and dangerous. “It’s definitely the future — I’m...
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Nov 2016
My comments on “What Black Mirror, Her and the near-future genre tell us about tomorrow” (TheGuardian)
I was recently interviewed by Noah Berlatsky and his piece just went online at TheGuardian “Taking after George Orwell and JG Ballard, some of the most...
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Nov 2016
The Future of Food – The Food of the Future: fascinating stuff!
“The Cultured Beef Project aims to create artificial meat in the laboratory. Technicians remove muscle cells from the shoulder of a cow, and feed the...
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Nov 2016
The ethics of artificial intelligence (Tim O’Reilly)
“Ethics is about having an intelligent discussion, not about answers, as such—it's about having the tools to think carefully about real-world actions and their effects,...
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Nov 2016
Troubling Study Says Artificial Intelligence Can Predict Who Will Be Criminals Based on Facial Features
“Kate Crawford, an AI researcher with Microsoft Research New York, MIT, and NYU, told The Intercept, “I‘d call this paper literal phrenology, it’s just using...
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Nov 2016
Google, Facebook and the Search for Truth – The Futures Agency and Tim Cole
“But the really worrying thing is that the Internet, which most of us heralded as a way to bring truth to the masses, is in...
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Nov 2016
Digital Obesity or Analogue Anorexia? Welcome to the Future (expanded excerpt from “Technology vs Humanity”)
No escape from the data tsunami? Note: this post has been excerpted, expanded and adapted from my new book “Technology vs Humanity” (read more here,...
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Nov 2016
The future of the digital economy (CSEM 2016): Slide-deck and audio of my keynote
Here is my deck from today's talk at CSEM 2016 in Zürich the-future-of-the-digital-economy-csem-zrh-2016-gerd-leonhard-public 34 MB PDF Audio track below — sorry for the low volume...
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Nov 2016
Even the BAXTER bot enjoys reading my new book “Technology vs Humanity” (and a drone is delivering it)
Images by Matt McLelland – Thanks ! Buy the book via Amazon or directly via my publisher. Read more about the book here. Read the...
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Nov 2016
New podcast: a conversation with futurists Richard Watson and Gerd Leonhard, discussing our new books: Digital vs Human, and Technology vs Humanity
Here is a brand-new podcast with my futurist colleague Richard Watson who just published a great book called ‘Digital vs Human‘. Richard's book is a...
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Nov 2016
Silicon Valley Reels After Trump’s Election – NYTimes.com
“Mr. Obama, who rode many of these digital tools to the presidency, was accommodative of their rise; his administration broadly deferred to the tech industry...
10
Nov 2016
Video and slides: IAPP Data Protection Congress in Brussels, today: Technology and Humanity (updated)
Great event here in Brussels today, see more details here. NEW: here is the video of my keynote My new book TECHNOLOGY VS HUMANITY, as...
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Nov 2016
The 2016 Election Exposes the Very, Very Dark Side of Tech
“It’s shown us—and not for the first time—how the same communication tools that can connect strangers in far-flung parts of the world can also be...
