

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...

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...
20
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...
19
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...
19
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...
18
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...
15
Apr 2019

The ethics of care and radical data science: an inhumane reduction of humanity down to what can be counted?
Os Keyes is a PhD student at the University of Washington and an inaugural Ada Lovelace Fellow who studies gender, data, technology, and control. She has...
15
Apr 2019

Audio version of my keynote at SAP Transform 2019: Technology and Humanity – the next 10 years
Here is the complete audio version of my keynote at SAP Transform 2019 in Munich. ... Read more
15
Apr 2019

Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant are changing how we interact with the world by doing it for us (via TheNextWeb, on VUIs)
“A survey of more than 1,500 online shoppers revealed that up to 43 percent of voice-enabled device users have used VUI (Voice User Interfaces) to...
14
Apr 2019

Amazon Alexa and Healthcare: what does this mean for privacy?
Angela Chen from The Verge offer a good analysis of Amazon's announcement that Alexa-enabled devices are now able to handle patient information. “A lot of good...
12
Apr 2019

4500+ Researchers Call for an Immediate Ban on Lethal Autonomous Weapons
Although AI plays an integral role in our everyday lives, AI can also be used to create weapons of mass destruction, unlike anything the world...