

I am delighted to announce the publication of a new short film featuring the best moments from over 100 keynotes during the past 2 years...

Update: video and slide-deck from my keynote at Switch.ch: the next 10 years in technology and humanity
Here is the PDF as promised:) 16 MB PDF. More about Switch here. Switch Gerd Leonhard Keynote next 10 years technology humanity public low...
28
Sep 2017

My presentation at ATEA Focus in Helsinki, today: technology, humanity and the future (download the Pdf)
Here it is, as promised. 15 MB PDF. More details on the event here. No worries – it's not in Finnish:) atea focus helsinki technology...
26
Sep 2017

How biotechnology will soon give almost anyone the power to destroy humanity
“The results are sobering. If there is a one in 100 chance that somebody with the technology will release it, and there are a few...
25
Sep 2017

Alibaba founder Jack Ma says to be a successful leader you need EQ, IQ, and LQ
“Ma, a former teacher, says he always warns government leaders to also “pay attention to education,� because right now we’re teaching children the wrong thing:...
25
Sep 2017

Matt Haig (The Guardian:) I used to think social media was a force for good. Now the evidence says I was wrong (must read)
“Kurt Vonnegut said: “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful who we pretend to be.” This seems especially true now...
24
Sep 2017

Facebook’s war on free will – powerful Franklin Foer / TheGuardian story (made me think – a lot)
“But we shouldn’t accept Facebook’s self-conception as sincere, either. Facebook is a carefully managed top-down system, not a robust public square. It mimics some of...
23
Sep 2017
AI Could Revolutionize War as Much as Nukes
“New technologies like those can be expected to bring with them a series of excruciating moral, political, and diplomatic choices for America and other nations....
22
Sep 2017
Artificial Intelligence Fuels New Global Arms Race – scary Putin quote
“Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia but for all humankind,” he said, via live video beamed to 16,000 selected schools. “Whoever becomes...
21
Sep 2017
IBM Watson CTO on Why Augmented Intelligence Beats AI – good read!
“I think one of the examples that illustrates this really well is in the medical space, where Watson is helping doctors make decisions and parsing...
21
Sep 2017

Technology is increasingly cheating the world (not just ‘eating’ it as Mark Andreessen likes to say)
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15
Sep 2017
Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence? Very thoughtful read !
“Some software platforms are moving towards “persuasive computing.” In the future, using sophisticated manipulation technologies, these platforms will be able to steer us through entire...
12
Sep 2017

Meet Futurist Gerd Leonhard in London October 4: Keynote at BREAKOUT2017: Ethical codes for a digital age
I am delighted to be able to contribute to this unique event in London, on October 4 2017 (for more details and updates go here)....
08
Sep 2017

We’re spending so much time trying to become robots that we’re forgetting how to be human (Scott Hartley via qz.com)
Totally my topic ;)"The drumbeat of science, technology, engineering, and math has picked up tempo, but a crisis of culture has emerged from its cadence....
07
Sep 2017

The future of computing as predicted by nine science-fiction machines (watch these videos)
“Our vision is to create that Star Trek computer and work backwards from that. The Star Trek computer wasn’t limited to just the Enterprise, they...
05
Sep 2017

Technology will not save the world — we will (very thoughtful read via the FT)
“Technology is marvellous, but it has had little or nothing to do with the best things about the world. And it will play a minor...
05
Sep 2017

I invested early in Google and Facebook. Now they terrify me (great piece by Roger McNamee)
"The people at Facebook and Google believe that giving consumers more of what they want and like is worthy of praise, not criticism. What they...