

“Quarantine has popularized a new kind of performance. When all the world can't be a stage, it seems during lockdown the balcony will have to do, as...


New video interview: Gerd Leonhard at Fundacion Telefonica #RepensandoElMañana #postcoronafuture
This is the edited version of my conversation with Christoph Steck, Telefonica Madrid, on the most important with/post-corona future scenarios also see my new page...
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May 2020

Manhattan Faces a Reckoning if Working From Home Becomes the Norm (via NYT – Must-read!)
Still, when the dust settles, New York City could face a real estate reckoning.
13
May 2020

20 minutes from the future with Gerd Leonhard (video via Impactscool)
“20 minutes from the future”: Impactscool online format created to stimulate debate and reflection on the #future even in this emergency time. On May 6,...
12
May 2020

How the coronavirus could throw global progress in reverse (Bryan Walsh)
“Even before the pandemic, income inequality in the U.S. was at its highest level since the government began tracking it in 1967. And U.S. life...
11
May 2020

Here is what a 40-minute online keynote with virtual Zoom backgrounds looks like
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07
May 2020

Mark Carney on how the post-covid economy must yield to human values (good read via TheEconomist)
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05
May 2020

Tech giants are profiting — and getting more powerful — even as the global economy tanks (via WaPo)
There are really two Americas right now,” said Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at the New York University Stern School of Business and author of...
28
Apr 2020

Open letter to AirBnB: Do the right thing: extenuating circumstances are the New Normal!
Open letter to AirBnB: Do the right thing: extenuating circumstances are the New Normal!
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Apr 2020

Living in a Ghost Town – The Rolling Stones’ new song. Love it!
I've been a Rolling Stones fan forever – and this song is another reason why. The Stones totally rock!!! ... Read more
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Apr 2020

Here are the videos, audio, images and polls from our live debate: Humanist vs Transhumanist
Read more about this event here. My Futures Agency colleague and fellow futurist Calum Chace disagrees with me on many of my core messages on topics such...
24
Apr 2020

Online Conference on Leadership: a short sample reel
This is what next-gen digital conferencing looks like:) Read more about this event, and watch the entire video ... Read more
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Apr 2020

New podcast with VoiceEd Radio: Episode 6 – Gerd Leonhard: Technology vs. Humanity
In Episode 6 Nick talks with Futurist Gerd Leonhard about:The importance of developing Foresight for everyoneOur Star Trek future – as long as we collaborateKey...
23
Apr 2020

Winners and losers in the world after corona: the age of big government?
overnments will strong-arm or nationalize companies, pay salaries, compensate businesses and do it by printing money and piling up debt. No one expects the invisible...
18
Apr 2020

This is how I do online keynotes using Zoom’s pretty cool virtual backgrounds functionality
This is how I do virtual keynotes using Zoom's virtual backgrounds capabilities
18
Apr 2020

COVID-19 has created a wartime atmosphere in which dramatic system changes suddenly seem possible (must-read via ForeignPolicy.com)
This much is certain: The pandemic will lead to permanent shifts in political and economic power in ways that will become apparent only later.