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Four Futures: Life After Capitalism review – will robots bring utopia or terror?
“The great danger posed by the automation of production, in the context of a world of hierarchy and scarce resources,” Frase says, “is that it...
What Stephen Hawking gets right and wrong about ‘the most dangerous time for our planet’
“Technology is the main culprit here, widening the gulf between the haves and the have-nots. As Hawking explained, automation has already decimated jobs in manufacturing...
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Dec 2016
Insight From the Dalai Lama Applied to AI Ethics -via Future of Life Institute
“One of the primary objectives — if not the primary objective — of artificial intelligence is to improve life for all people. But an equally...
08
Dec 2016
My keynote at Microsoft DPK16 in Bremen: challenges and opportunities in digital transformation (in German language)
Just out! Download the deck on my German blog. Original posted video by MSFT (thanks for making this recording available) ... Read more
06
Dec 2016
Could you soon fly an airplane with your mind?
“What kind of things do you think we will be doing with our minds?Look at it this way: a hundred years ago this interview would...
03
Dec 2016
My best slides from December 2016: technology and/with/versus humanity?
New deck from flickr ! Read the book now:) Download the PDF: future-challenge-opportunities-futurist-speaker-gerd-leonhard-technology-humanity-collect-public-dec2-2016 24MB ... Read more
02
Dec 2016
New: conversations with Gerd #2 – the global brain is near (Technology vs/and Humanity)
The latest from my new series ‘conversations with Gerd‘. Check out my new book here Technology vs Humanity Technology vs Humanity: key messages Technology...
01
Dec 2016
Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum (that’s putting it mildly) via GigaOM
“Silicon Valley’s biggest failing is not poor marketing of its products, or follow-through on promises, but, rather, the distinct lack of empathy for those whose...
29
Nov 2016
Death Is Optional | Edge.org. Fascinating conversation with YUVAL NOAH HARARI and Daniel Kahnemann
“Once you really solve a problem like direct brain-computer interface ... when brains and computers can interact directly, that's it, that's the end of history,...
28
Nov 2016
A key message from my ‘Exponential Change’ film: anything that cannot be digitised or automated becomes extremely valuable !
… and that means HUMAN-ONLY skills and idiosyncrasies Watch the entire film below (4 mins). Download the film (300MB MP4) (OK to reuse under...
26
Nov 2016
Update: complete video and presentation: Gerd Leonhard at the Smart Port Rotterdam Conference: the future in a nutshell
… as promised here are the slides ! More details about this event. 10-year-future-smartport-rotterdam-gerd-leonhard-futurist-public-low-res 20 MB PDF SmartPort will be hosting its first SmartPort Summit...
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Nov 2016
Watching the World Rot at Europe’s Largest Tech Conference / must read !!
“You can go further. In the accounts given by philosophers like Bernard Stiegler, the human stands on the point of vanishing entirely; we become something...
23
Nov 2016
When her best friend died, she used artificial intelligence to keep talking to him – great story on memorial bots
“Memorial bots — even the primitive ones that are possible using today’s technology — seemed both inevitable and dangerous. “It’s definitely the future — I’m...
21
Nov 2016
My comments on “What Black Mirror, Her and the near-future genre tell us about tomorrow” (TheGuardian)
I was recently interviewed by Noah Berlatsky and his piece just went online at TheGuardian “Taking after George Orwell and JG Ballard, some of the most...
21
Nov 2016
The Future of Food – The Food of the Future: fascinating stuff!
“The Cultured Beef Project aims to create artificial meat in the laboratory. Technicians remove muscle cells from the shoulder of a cow, and feed the...
21
Nov 2016
The ethics of artificial intelligence (Tim O’Reilly)
“Ethics is about having an intelligent discussion, not about answers, as such—it's about having the tools to think carefully about real-world actions and their effects,...
21
Nov 2016
Troubling Study Says Artificial Intelligence Can Predict Who Will Be Criminals Based on Facial Features
“Kate Crawford, an AI researcher with Microsoft Research New York, MIT, and NYU, told The Intercept, “I‘d call this paper literal phrenology, it’s just using...
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Nov 2016
Google, Facebook and the Search for Truth – The Futures Agency and Tim Cole
“But the really worrying thing is that the Internet, which most of us heralded as a way to bring truth to the masses, is in...
