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The Rise of the Thought Leader – some critical thoughts by Daniel Drezner
“The case against thought leaders, The Ideas Industry shows, is damning. As Drezner notes, some of the marquee names in thought leadership are distinguished by...
Video and slides from my keynote at The Economist Innovation Forum 2017 in Berlin: Technology, Business, Digital Ethics (updated)
Here is the deck, below (PDF 20MB), More about the event here. Business Technology and Digital Ethics Gerd Leonhard @Economist Innovation Forum Berlin 2017 Public...
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Jun 2017
A leading Silicon Valley engineer explains why every tech worker needs a humanities education (the power of philosophy)
“It worries me that so many of the builders of technology today are people who haven’t spent time thinking about these larger questions.” Ruefully—and with...
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Jun 2017
The Guardian view on the EU’s Google judgment: firm and fair – made me think!
“The breathtaking fine of €2.4bn that the European commission has imposed on Google for exploiting its virtual monopoly of search is shocking and welcome. It...
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Jun 2017
The Guardian view on the EU’s Google judgement (part 1)
“The breathtaking fine of €2.4bn that the European commission has imposed on Google for exploiting its virtual monopoly of search is shocking and welcome. It...
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Jun 2017
Be Aware, Be Very Aware (Tristan Harris Podcast)
“we should acknowledge that the psychology of our minds work in specific, predictable and persuadable ways with “big holes waiting for things to pop in.”...
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Jun 2017
Meet Amazon’s New Echo Show: Alexa Is Watching
“It has this wild new feature called Drop In. Drop In lets you give people permission to automatically connect with your device. Here’s how it...
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Jun 2017
The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence – 5* read by Kai-Fu Lee
“One way or another, we are going to have to start thinking about how to minimize the looming A.I.-fueled gap between the haves and the...
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Jun 2017
Inequality boosted by AI – must read links via Azeem Azhar
“Economic growth has gone hand in hand with rising inequality for more than 9,000 years. Inequalities have only narrowed through war or plague. History offers...
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Jun 2017
Is it unethical to design robots to resemble humans? Great story on anthropomorphization
“And so the more we humanize chatbots, virtual assistants, and machines, the more we in turn display human emotions toward them. This is the process...
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Jun 2017
Technology, Humanity, and the Future of HR: my deck from today’s keynote (HR Summit Milano)
Read more about the event here HR Summit Milano Technology Humanity HR Futures Gerd Leonhard Public low res 20 MB PDF ... Read more
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Jun 2017
The big lesson from Amazon and Whole Foods: Disruptive competition comes out of nowhere – Vivek Wadhwa
“Note the march of Amazon. First it was bookstores, publishing and distribution; then cleaning supplies, electronics and assorted home goods. Now Amazon is set to...
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Jun 2017
Carmageddon is Coming – Future Crunch – great read via Medium
“An overlapping confluence of three different technological waves — the smartphone, the electric battery and artificial intelligence — have created the conditions for a technological disruption so profound it’s...
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Jun 2017
“Google, not GCHQ, is the truly chilling spy network” says John Naughton (The Guardian)
“one of the spooks with whom I discussed Snowden’s revelations waxed indignant about our coverage of the story. What bugged him (pardon the pun) was...
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Jun 2017
Why you should manage your energy, not your time (via the BBC)
“In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many workers turn back toward an industrial...
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Jun 2017
The Amazon-Walmart Showdown That Explains the Modern Economy / must read via NYT
“Each one is trying to become more like the other — Walmart by investing heavily in its technology, Amazon by opening physical bookstores and now...
