

This was a really great event here in Prague: DOTS 2017. I enjoyed hearing Satya Nadella speak about his vision on the future of Microsoft – exciting...
The Like Button Ruined the Internet – made me think
“Newspapers and magazines used to have a rather coarse model of their audience. It used to be that they couldn’t be sure how many people...
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Mar 2017

Five new human rights for the Digital Age (excerpt from Gerd Leonhard’s book Technology vs Humanity)
This is a slightly modified and hyper-linked excerpt from my new book ‘Technology vs Humanity'. Find out more about ‘Technology vs Humanity', check out the reviews,...
25
Mar 2017

Voice Is the Next Big Platform, and Alexa Will Own It (great read on backchannel)
“Amazon is introducing us to a new computing interface — a voice devoid of a screen—that will eventually grow to be more ubiquitous and more useful than...
22
Mar 2017

Artificial Intelligence And Income Inequality (via HuffPo)
“Income inequality is a well recognized problem. The gap between the rich and poor has grown over the last few decades, but it became increasingly...
22
Mar 2017

Interview with Futurist Gerd Leonhard: Swiss Marketing Tag 2017 in Luzern (in German): Technology vs Humanity
Thanks to Marketing Tag 2017 und an Susanne Wille (10 vor 10 @ SRF) Download my slides here Audio-only version of my keynote: ... Read more
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Mar 2017

Are you ready to be microchipped? A short film presented by TFA Studio and FuturistGerd
Think about that. Download a high res MP4 version here (it's OK to use this clip under creative commons attribution non-commercial license) Art Director and...
18
Mar 2017
How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Everything – good interview via the WSJ
“MR. JACOBSTEIN: Just since the beginning of 2017 we’ve seen a team at Northwestern develop an AI that could solve the Raven Progressive Matrices Test,...
16
Mar 2017

In a robot showdown, humanity may happily surrender (Homo Deus book) – Intelligence will matter more than consciousness?
As you can imagine I don't quite agree with that summary: intelligence matters more than consciousness??“But with robots making and killing things better than we...
16
Mar 2017

Singapore: The robot city – Raconteur
“This, he says, leads to a conveyor-belt approach – “people who were seen as residents, all of a sudden, they’re seen as consumers, as clients...
15
Mar 2017

My presentation at UBA Trend Days in Brussels: Technology, Humanity, The Future – and what does all that mean for Marketing?
More details on the event here Here is the deck (20 MB PDF): Gerd Leonhard UBA Brussels Technology Humanity and Marketing Public low res ......
15
Mar 2017
I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it | Tim Berners-Lee
“It’s too easy for misinformation to spread on the webToday, most people find news and information on the web through just a handful of social...
13
Mar 2017
Our Bots, Ourselves – brilliant read via The Atlantic
“In the coming decades, artificial intelligence will replace a lot of human jobs, from driving trucks to analyzing X-rays. But it will also work with...
10
Mar 2017

New video: conversations with Gerd #4: Futurist Gerd Leonhard explains the megashifts
The Megashifts are a key meme in my new book Technology vs Humanity – this video explains the basics. Go to www.megashifts.com for some more...
10
Mar 2017

Slides and video: my presentation at Esprix Forum 2017 in Luzern: Humanity and Technology: The Future (in German)
… on my German blog Menschlichkeit der Technologie Zukunft Gerd Leonhard Esprix Luzern 2017 Public Deck low res ... Read more
09
Mar 2017
‘Artificial Intelligence’ Has Become Meaningless / good points via The Atlantic
“Deflationary examples of AI are everywhere. Google funds a system to identify toxic comments online, a machine learning algorithm called Perspective. But it turns out...
09
Mar 2017

Here is my presentation from Swiss Marketing Tag 2017 in Luzern (in German)
…. via my German blog. ... Read more
07
Mar 2017

New Podcast with fellow speaker and Futures Agency Member Thimon de Jong: digital transformation, media, truth, trust and… tech vs human?
My fellow Futures Agency member Thimon de Jong and me just had a really good chat on the future of trust and on the general topic of...