

Riffing-off, and simplifying from, a recent WEF piece here --- this will become a strong meme for 2021 (no matter what you may think about...

Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s most recent videos on the 10 Game-Changers
Can now be viewed on my Youtube Channel here and here ... Read more
20
Jan 2021

IPSOS 2021 Global Advisor Predictions (some good stats and food for thought)
This report was just released and the results are quite interesting, Check out my highlights and comments below. “After a 2020 that is rated as...
15
Jan 2021

Exponential Progress towards a Sustainable Future: Some statistics I like
As I like to say ‘Sustainable will become the Profitable‘. Here are some key trends and stats I often use in my talks. From a...
15
Jan 2021

Awesome humans on-top of amazing technology: Our Future
A new speaking topic for 2021 – you get to see this first:) ... Read more
12
Jan 2021

New Video: Futurist Gerd Leonhard Q&A Session at IEEE Global Conference on AI and IoT Dec 13 2020
This was a great event and we will publish the entire keynote on my Youtube channel in a few days as well; be sure to...
08
Jan 2021

We are least aware of what our minds do best (Marvin Minsky)
Tacit knowledge or implicit knowledge (as opposed to formal, codified or explicit knowledge) is the kind of knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another...
06
Jan 2021

New Video: 4 Leading Futurists Present Their Post-Covid Future Insights and Foresights (using the pretty cool mmhmm app)
What happens when four professional futurists with a knack for helping organizations and individuals prepare for an increasingly uncertain future get together to discuss the...
14
Dec 2020

7 short videos on resilience and agility in the with/post covid world (Futurist Gerd Leonhard)
Covid-19 has changed and continues to change everything. And the speed of change and innovation is only accelerating. For businesses to successfully navigate these massive...
28
Nov 2020

Meet me at the IEEE Global Conference on AI and the IoT 2020 Dec 12-16 in Dubai (virtually)
More here Redefining Digital Transformation for a with/post-covid world: the next 10 years The ongoing covid-19 crisis represents a tremendous challenge as well as a unique opportunity...
26
Nov 2020

The Best and Worst Places to Be in the Coronavirus Era (great interactive charts via Bloomberg)
Really powerful interactive charts here via Blooomberg.com “As Covid-19 has spread around the world, it’s challenged preconceptions about which places would best tackle the worst...
25
Nov 2020

3 Post-Covid Scenarios for 2021 (via my colleague the Medical Futurist)
My futurist colleague Bertalan Mesko publishes a TON of good stuff on the future of medical, pharma, life-sciences etc ! I love this overview below...
25
Nov 2020

Africa will be home to the world’s largest population by 2100 (made me think)
More than 8 out of 10 people in the world will live in Asia or Africa by 2100 Whether the world population will reach 10...
24
Nov 2020

Some recent stats on food, agriculture and climate change
Via Your World in Data ... Read more
18
Nov 2020

Brazil 2020 Opportunity Tree: good report by McKinsey *pre-covid
But still very useful. Have a look here “This material seeks to offer some perspectives on the opportunities that we can envision for Brazil, carefully...
16
Nov 2020

The Future is Vegetarian (I know… that sounds tough)
Good points here — like The End of Oil, we don't really have many other options Read more via The Economist ... Read more
15
Nov 2020

The key question is no longer IF or HOW technology can do something but WHY it should, and WHO controls it.
Some of my most crucial messages are summarized in this short, hard-hitting presentation I gave yesterday at the Open Innovation Forum in Moscow on Oct...
22
Oct 2020

Here is my recent TedX Modena talk: Heaven or Hell – the future is our choice!
We're at a fork in the history of humanity. The next ten years will make or break humanity's future. It could be heaven or it...