

“We will need new practitioners to tame and manage the emerging data-driven digital world, as well as those to regulate and govern them. Rather than...

Made me think: The new Luddites: why former digital prophets are turning against tech
“In 1967 Lewis Mumford spoke presciently of the possibility of a “mega-machine” that would result from “the convergence of science, technics and political power”. Pynchon...
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Oct 2017

Der Feind ist nicht Facebook, der Feind sind wir selbst” (Interview mit Gerd Leonhard, in German)
"Wir sollten Technologie umarmen, aber nicht Technologie werden"Der Futurist und Humanist Gerd Leonhard über eine digitale Ethik."Wir werden in zwanzig Jahren an dem Punkt angelangt...
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Oct 2017

AI May Soon Replace Even the Most Elite Consultants (made me think)
“According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), a new partnership between UBS Wealth Management and Amazon allows some of UBS’s European wealth-management clients to ask...
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Oct 2017
Former Talking Heads frontman says consumer tech is working against what it means to be human
It has been about creating the possibility of a world with less human interaction. This tendency is, I suspect, not a bug, it’s a feature....
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Oct 2017

Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats (via NYT)
In Europe, however, the ground is already shifting. Google’s share of the search engine market there is 92 percent, according to StatCounter. But that did...
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Oct 2017

End of the road: will automation put an end to the American trucker – fascinating story
“The only human beings left in the modern supply chain are truck drivers. If you go to a modern warehouse now, say Amazon or Walmart,...
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Oct 2017

Opportunity for everyone – great post by google CEO Sundar Pinchai
“These are tough gaps. For instance, the nature of work is fundamentally changing. And that is shifting the link between education, training and opportunity. Young...
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Oct 2017

Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s presentation at the NASSCOM BPM Strategy Summit in Bengaluru, India: PDF and video
More details on the event, also here Nasscom BPM Bangalore Gerd Leonhard Technology Humanity The Future Public Deck LOW RES 20 MB PDF UPDATE January 28, 2018:...
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Oct 2017

Here is the PDF from my presentation at the Nasscom BPM Summit in Bangalore today: Technology, Humanity and the Future
Nasscom BPM Bangalore Gerd Leonhard Technology Humanity The Future Public Deck LOW RES More details here ... Read more
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Oct 2017

How Russia Harvested American Rage to Reshape U.S. Politics (NYT)
““This is cultural hacking,� said Jonathan Albright, research director at Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. “They are using systems that were already set...
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Oct 2017

The Real Problem With Voice Assistants Like Siri Is Your Brain
“The bad news is that the capital-d Dream of a virtual assistant that manages your digital life while you live your real one is probably...
12
Oct 2017
My presentation at London Law Expo 2017 (Netlaw Media): Technology, Humanity and the Future
Here is the deck from yesterday's talk at London Law Expo Netlaw Media London Technologhy Humanity the future gerd leonhard Public 32MB PDF ... Read...
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Oct 2017

‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia (via TheGuardian)
“There is growing concern that as well as addicting users, technology is contributing toward so-called “continuous partial attention�, severely limiting people’s ability to focus, and...
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Oct 2017

Rise of the Robolawyers: made me think (via TheAtlantic)
“DoNotPay is just the beginning. Until we see a major, society-changing breakthrough in artificial intelligence, robolawyers won’t dispute the finer points of copyright law or...
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Oct 2017

Inside IBM’s Vision For AI: Strategic Insights From CEO Ginni Rometty (the end of programming)
“Watson and "The End of Programming": "Everything you know until today is programmable—an entire era for decades has been programmable. Watson would be the beginning...