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GSMA sharpens focus on ethical digitalisation with the launch of ‘Digital Declaration’
Hear hear ! Better late than never :)) “Social, technological, political and economic currents are combining to create a perfect storm of disruption across all...
Will we need another ‘Oppenheimer moment’ to take action on our future?
Guest post by TFA Curator Peter Van In Gerd's recent podcast with Matt Ward from Disruptors.fm, they discussed a theme from his last book Technology vs. Humanity,...
26
Jan 2019
World Leaders at Davos Call for Global Rules on Technology (via the NYT) #digitalethics
“The rapid spread of digital technology in daily life and the implications that has on the future of work and data security will require more...
26
Jan 2019
New podcast: a conversation about Chapter 1 of Gerd Leonhard’s book Technology vs Humanity: a prologue to the Future
This is #1 of a new weekly podcast featuring every chapter in my book Technology vs Humanity. In the first chapter titled “A Prologue to...
24
Jan 2019
Gerd Leonhard’s latest newsletter just went live: practical wisdoms from the future (announcing Digital Ethics focus)
Read more, and subscribe here I have been very fortunate that my 2016 book ‘Technology vs. Humanity’has been successful beyond my wildest dreams. Many memes from...
23
Jan 2019
The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution
“As always, progress has not been without a price. Like the factories of 200 years ago, digital advances have given rise to a pollution that...
21
Jan 2019
The hidden manufacturing of the self (Nicolas Carr on the new book ‘the age of surveillance capitalism’)
This is a guest post by TFA’s new curator Peter Vander Auwera In his book review of Shoshana Zuboff’s “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”, Nicolas...
20
Jan 2019
New video: proposing a Global Digital Ethics Council
… it's time to incorporate the negative externalities of exponential technological progress into EVERY digital business model! ... Read more
20
Jan 2019
Is AI a danger for Humanity? Well… it’s complicated!
In an interesting display of “Yes, No, It's complicated”, three Indian researchers reflect whether AI is a danger for humanity. In the YES-camp, the key...
18
Jan 2019
The very first edition of my Digital Ethics newsletter is now available!
This is a new collaboration with TFA's new curator PeterVan. Subscribe here. Read the first issue here. ... Read more
17
Jan 2019
Don’t believe the hype: the media are unwittingly selling us an AI fantasy | John Naughton
“The tech giants that own and control the technology have plans to exponentially increase that impact and to that end have crafted a distinctive narrative....
15
Jan 2019
New video excerpt from my keynote at Netapp Insight 2018: with great power comes great responsibility #digitalethics
Download these videos via gerd.cloud Watch the complete keynote on my Youtube channel Netapp 2018-Gerd-Leonhard-Futurist-Gerd-on-Stage-Power-And-Responsibility. 50MB MP4 download ... Read more
14
Jan 2019
New podcast with Matt Ward: Megashifts, AI and Why the Future is More Unknowable than Ever
Listen to it now on iTunes Matt Ward is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, startup advisor and author with a passion for futurism and technology....
13
Jan 2019
The currency of humanity (Joi Ito’s Practice of Change)
In late 2018, Joi Ito, Director MIT Media Lab presented his draft Phd. dissertation on the “Practice of Change“. Organised in 6 chapters, he articulates...
13
Jan 2019
Beware corporate ‘machinewashing’ of AI
“To compound the problem, the baleful effects of AI are often rooted in the very algorithms that drive many tech companies’ profit streams. Economists call...
09
Jan 2019
Futurist Gerd Leonhard announces updated mission statement, new 2019 speaking topics, and a deeper focus on digital ethics and the future of humanity
January 5, 2019 Greetings everyone, and Happy New Year! It’s been almost 17 years that I started giving talks and presentations on the future, and...
06
Jan 2019
How Much of the Internet Is Fake (via NY Mag)
“What’s gone from the internet, after all, isn’t “truth,” but trust: the sense that the people and things we encounter are what they represent themselves...
02
Jan 2019
A Conversation about AI, with Rudy Rucker (Voices of AI podcast)
“one of Wolfram's points has been that any natural process can embody universal computation. Once you have universal computation, it seems like in principle, you...
