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3 short excerpts from my keynote at Xerocon 2018: Technology and Humanity – the next 10 years
The Megashifts Reinventing ourselves The Future is better than we think ... Read more
Surveillance Capitalism and the Platform Economy is humanly and societally unsustainable, and Facebook will go down with it
Read this for context: The brilliant book by Shoshana Zuboff The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Time to break up Facebook (Chris Hughes NYT) Chris...
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May 2019
CEOs Have To Stop Using Smart Machines To Get Rid Of Workers (good read via Forbes.com)
… with some quotes from me, as well:). “Predicting more change in the next 20 years than the previous 300, Gerd Leonhard, CEO of The...
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May 2019
We should challenge the cult of Singularity (says Joi Ito, Director MIT Media Lab)
The Director of the MIT Media Lab Joi Ito has a wonderful and thought-provoking post this week in WIRED. Pretty much on the same page...
08
May 2019
The 15 “We shall not” statements from my latest book, Technology vs Humanity – and what has happened since I published it
The 15 Shall Not's, below, are excerpted from chapter 10 of my 2016 book Technology vs. Humanity which is, thankfully, becoming increasingly popular around the...
01
May 2019
New podcast: conversation on Digital Ethics, Chapter 10 of Gerd Leonhard’s book ‘Technology vs Humanity’. Technology does not have ethics – but we must!
In this podcast Peter Van and me talk about Chapter 10 in my book Technology vs Humanity, on Digital Ethics. It is a fast-paced conversation...
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Apr 2019
The best excerpts from Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s recent keynotes and interviews, on topics such as Technology and Humanity, the Megashifts and Digital Ethics
???? Please visit my Youtube channel for 500+ hours of films and keynote videos ... Read more
28
Apr 2019
Sidewalk Labs free app for watching every move you make… ‘only for research purposes’
Sidewalk Labs, the urban design subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet built an app to automate the “tedious” data collection involved in public life studies–while...
27
Apr 2019
The experience economy is booming, but it must benefit everyone (WEF 2019)
The experience economy has become a constant component in my talks and presentations, riffing of Gilmore & Pine's 1999 and 2005 book. Here are some...
25
Apr 2019
Really nice piece about my work as futurist, humanist, author and film maker (in Spanish): GERD LEONHARD: “SE INVIERTE MUY POCO EN EDUCAR A LOS NIÑOS A SER MÁS HUMANOS”
Nice piece via the Foundacion Telefonica and Juan Zafra – thanks! FUTURISTA, HUMANISTA Y CINEASTA GERD LEONHARD: “SE INVIERTE MUY POCO EN EDUCAR A LOS NIÑOS...
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Apr 2019
7 AI Traps to consider (via Freedom to Tinker)
Koen Lenssens told us about this great post about the 7 misconceptions and traps when it's about AI Ethics. The writer, Dr Annette Zimmermann, criticises some overly...
22
Apr 2019
When employees are tracked by their employers, science fiction may actually become science fact (screening surveillance project)
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada funded the Screening Surveillance project: a trio of Creative Commons licensed short science fiction films about “everyday issues...
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Apr 2019
When Tim Cook says no to the FBI (new book by Leander Kahney)
A new book about Tim Cook is out: Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level and the author Leander Kahney shared an extract...
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Apr 2019
6 keywords to describe the future: exponential, convergent, combinatorial, holistic, circular, human-centric
Here's a brand-new animation that shows these 6 items, below (note that the last 3 are probably more about ‘what I hope will happen' rather...
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Apr 2019
New podcast: Chapter 9 of Gerd Leonhard’s book Technology vs Humanity: on happiness
Is happiness programmable? Can technology further lasting human happiness? What is the difference between hedonism (short happiness bursts) and eudaemonia (lasting, deeper happiness)? In this...
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Apr 2019
New video with Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s keynote at Springsplash 2019 in Helsinki. The Future: Awesome humans on top of amazing technology
Smart everything – but still human? The more we connect the more we must protect. Trust isn't digital, happiness is not a download. Technology CAN...
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Apr 2019
Practical Wisdom: The Master Virtue
PRACTICAL WISDOM has become a key meme for my work – hence the pointers below:)) “For Aristotle, being virtuous meant avoiding these extremes, by following...
