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This is how Big Oil will die – NewCo Shift (must read)
“It’s 2025, and 800,000 tons of used high strength steel is coming up for auction.The steel made up the Keystone XL pipeline, finally completed in...
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? Some serious food for thought via The Atlantic
“a generation shaped by the smartphone and by the concomitant rise of social media. I call them iGen. Born between 1995 and 2012, members of...
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Aug 2017
Human ingenuity will be the genesis for IoT prosperity: thoughtful piece by Jeanne Beliveau-Dunne (Cisco)
“As business leaders, we must think beyond the fiscal bottom line and technological advances in products and services and ask ourselves, how will IoT affect...
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Aug 2017
This piece really made me think: the end of humanity as we know it’s ‘coming in 2045’ (and Google is preparing for it)
“What is the singularity?In maths/physics, the singularity is the point at which a function takes an infinite value because it’s incomprehensibly large.The technological singularity, as...
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Jul 2017
Martin Seligman: We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment (why we are all futurists) via NYT
“What best distinguishes our species is an ability that scientists are just beginning to appreciate: We contemplate the future. Our singular foresight created civilization and...
30
Jul 2017
New video: Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s Keynote at DHL Global Technology Conference 2017. Shifting Gears: Technology and Humanity
A big thank you to DHL for inviting me and for making this recording available ! Download the PDF with my slides: Shifting gears technology humanity...
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Jul 2017
The Real Risks of AI – via NewCo Shift (food for thought)
“AGI can be something that we have virtually no understanding or recognition of, but which may have a significant understanding of us if it is...
26
Jul 2017
Gerd Leonhard’s slide-deck and presentation: APMF Jakarta July 25: exponential change, technology, humanity and media
Here it is! Thanks for your interest. More about the APMF APMF Jakarta Technology Humanity and Media Futurist Gerd Leonhard PUBLIC low res 17 MB...
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Jul 2017
The DeepMind debacle demands dialogue on data – AI will falter without a public consensus around the role of data
“Innovations such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and the Internet of Things offer great opportunities, but will falter without a public consensus around the role...
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Jul 2017
When Moore’s Law Met AI – Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Computing – Medium
“AI is bigger than Moore’s LawIn a nutshell, this shift by Tesla summarizes the kinds of demand machine learning-like applications are going to make on...
23
Jul 2017
What next? How future gazing became big business (Quoting Gerd Leonhard)
“Leonhard says he simply focuses on the long term for people who are too busy do it for themselves. “If you took any executive and...
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Jul 2017
Tencent and digital ethics
“🎲 Tencent falls 3.7% after limiting the gaming time for children on its top-grossing mobile game. More than 50m people play Honour of Kings daily,...
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Jul 2017
From Inequality to Immortality
“my grim forecast is that a world where such miracles of longevity are confined to billionaires will see socio-political upheaval, the likes of which will...
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Jul 2017
Is advertising over? What chief marketers are saying about the future of marketing (interruption is dead)
“eMarketer predicts that brands will spend a staggering $34 billion on Facebook this year alone.But as businesses spend ever more money on advertising – nearly...
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Jul 2017
When Will the Planet Be Too Hot For Humans? Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine.
“Until recently, permafrost was not a major concern of climate scientists, because, as the name suggests, it was soil that stayed permanently frozen. But Arctic...
15
Jul 2017
A Blueprint for Coexistence with AI | Very thoughtful piece by Kei Fu Li
“Our coexistence with artificial intelligence hinges on combining what is humanly unattainable—the hugely scaled narrow AI intelligence that will only get better at any given...
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Jul 2017
Climate Change: Are We as Doomed as That New York Magazine Article Says? (The Atlantic)
“On the other hand, a strategy for addressing climate change is coming together. The cost of solar and wind energy are plunging worldwide; carmakers are...
12
Jul 2017
What are ‘Androrithms’ – a key meme from Gerd Leonhard’s new book Technology vs Humanity’
We just made a new gif for this meme – see below (re-use is ok – subject to creative commons license). Read more at here...
