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The most important bottom lines from Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s “Technology vs Humanity” book, in 5 minutes (video)
Here is a brand-new video my TFA Studio team and me recorded a few weeks ago, explaining the key memes set forth in my new book...
Why Hollywood as We Know It Is Already Over (good long read via Vanity Fair)
“But the real threat isn’t China. It’s Silicon Valley. Hollywood, in its over-reliance on franchises, has ceded the vast majority of the more stimulating content...
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Feb 2017
Electric cars and cheap solar could halt fossil fuel growth by 2020 (The Guardian)
“Polluting fuels could lose 10% of market share to solar power and clean cars within a decade, the report by the Grantham Institute at Imperial...
04
Feb 2017
Can We Balance Human Ethics With Artificial Intelligence? – Techonomy
“We should not let Silicon Valley be the mission control for humanity,” argues futurist Gerd Leonhard, author of a new book called Tech versus Humanity:...
03
Feb 2017
We’re Building a World-Size Robot, and We Don’t Even Realize It (Bruce Schneier) – so what should NOT be connected
“Our only solution will be regulation, and that regulation will be foisted on us by a government desperate to “do something” in the face of...
30
Jan 2017
Futurist Gerd Leonhard: Open letter to the Partnership on AI (take 2)
When machines have an IQ of 50,000, what happens to human values and ethics? By Gerd Leonhard Futurist , Author Technology vs Humanity The partnership...
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Jan 2017
Tumultuous Times: ‘Political Uncertainty Has Doubled Around the World’ – SPIEGEL ONLINE
“Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty. The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing...
26
Jan 2017
The Gradual Disappearance of Jobs – very good read on UBI and negative income tax
“Once Moravec’s paradox is relegated to the history books, formerly protected unskilled low wage jobs will disappear due to automation. The only jobs to persist...
26
Jan 2017
The Gradual Disappearance of Jobs
“Jacques Attali in France, economist and social theorist, asked for a moratorium on AI research following a Google publication about an experiment on two artificial...
26
Jan 2017
Human Poker Pros Are Getting Trounced By Artificial Intelligence – is this a big deal?
“We’re at the halfway point of the epic 20-day, 150,000-hand “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence” Texas Hold’em Poker tournament, and a machine named Libratus is trouncing...
26
Jan 2017
2017: Goodbye to the Age of Replication, welcome back to Originality: productivity… is for Robots.
By Gerd Leonhard, Future Thinker The current Age of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) might be seen altogether differently in the future. It is...
25
Jan 2017
We might be heading for a jobless world, but that’s not as bad as it sounds …via WEF
“Guy Standing’s argument for a universal basic income (which he shared on the Forum’s blog back in December) is based on a pretty simple but...
24
Jan 2017
Silicon Valley Utopianism the Dystopian Trump Presidency (Wired.com)
“In the wake of the election, some despairing technologists have wondered how to improve the products and systems that led to this result. “There are...
24
Jan 2017
The Coming Tech Backlash – NewCo Shift
“50% of the jobs will be gone in ~20 years. Not from the great sucking sound of jobs to Mexico that can be stopped with...
24
Jan 2017
Equipping people to stay ahead of technological change – great read via the economist
“WHEN education fails to keep pace with technology, the result is inequality. Without the skills to stay useful as innovations arrive, workers suffer—and if enough...
24
Jan 2017
Must read: 2017 Edelman Trust Report – welcome to a world of distrust
The new Edelman trust report just came out and it's full of stats and data that shows how trust is in decline everywhere… read more...
20
Jan 2017
Join us for The Great Debate on Technology and Humanity during MWC Barcelona February 28 2017
I am very excited to announce that me and my company, The Futures Agency, has teamed up with Tim Leberecht and his team to present a very unique...
20
Jan 2017
Technology’s frantic speed will create ‘digital refugees’ with no clear fix, Salesforce’s Benioff warns at Davos
“Benioff said during the hour-long discussion on “Preparing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.”“I think now about how artificial intelligence will create digital refugees and how...
