

More details about the event here. Keynote: “The future is already here: opportunities and challenges for the next five years: exponential technologies, leadership and the...

Black Mirror really nails the key issues of the near future (technology vs humanity)
I'm a huge fan – read this piece, and watch the clips below. Technology is a malevolent tool for dehumanization in ‘Black Mirror'… Created by Charlie...
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Oct 2016

Are you ready to abdicate your humanity? If not, read my new book “Technology vs. Humanity”
Are ready to Abdicate Your Humanity? If not, read Technology vs. Humanity There are many stages in our love affair with technology, starting with the first...
23
Oct 2016

The future of keynotes is here: The Future Show LIVE
During the past few years, I have been thinking a lot about how to make my keynotes even more immersive, more interactive, more personal… and...
21
Oct 2016

Here is the deck from my presentation at Microsofts 2016 Partner Conference in Bremen, today (DPK16)
As promised, here's the deck! In German 🙂 More details on the event here Digitale Revolution – digitale Chancen Unter dem Motto „Digitale Revolution“ findet...
18
Oct 2016

There is a blind spot in AI research – good read via nature.com
“And just last month, several leading AI companies, including Microsoft, Amazon and IBM, formed the Partnership on AI to try to advance public understanding and...
17
Oct 2016
The 4 big ethical questions of the Fourth Industrial Revolution – 5* read
“If the technology is to go forward, how should it proceed?It matters how a technology is researched and how it enters the world. For example,...
16
Oct 2016
Barack Obama: Now Is the Greatest Time to Be Alive – inspiring read
“The point is, we need today’s big thinkers thinking big. Think like you did when you were watching Star Trek or Star Wars or Inspector...
15
Oct 2016

My presentation at the Envestnet 2016 event on Artificial Intelligence, Automation and the Future of Financial Services (Kerala, India)
Hers is the deck from the amazing Envestnet event in Trivandrum India today. This year, in the second edition of the Conference on Architecting Intelligence,we bring...
15
Oct 2016
Your Next Friend Could Be a Robot: must read !
“t turns out that humans can form emotional bonds with a “social technology,” as these systems are called, without true artificial intelligence. People are good...
14
Oct 2016
Crash: how computers are setting us up for disaster | Tim Harford on the dangers of automation
“This problem has a name: the paradox of automation. It applies in a wide variety of contexts, from the operators of nuclear power stations to...
12
Oct 2016

Presentation deck and video (NEW): ACEPI Portugal Digital Summit – the future of humanity and business (updated)
I always enjoy Lisbon and the Portuguese audience. More details on this event. Updated Dec 30, 2016 (better PDF) Future of Humanity Business Gerd Leonhard Portugal...
11
Oct 2016

Would you let your boss monitor your brain to improve your productivity? Nice video via WEF
The ‘end of cognitive liberty'- wow. Read more via the WEF “Few would object to a brain-monitoring smartcap that picked up the early signs of...
07
Oct 2016

Some of my best slides from this week’s keynotes: technology-humanity, AI, Megashifts and more
Here they are (all subject to creative commons attribution non commercial license – except for those images that are by 3rd parties) ... Read more
06
Oct 2016

Nice video clip on how “AI Will Create ‘Useless Class’ of Human, Predicts Bestselling Historian Yuval Noah Harari”
https://youtu.be/-U44x8SWixQ Read more ... Read more
05
Oct 2016

TV Interview on the future of technology, banking, digital ethics & humanity: Gerd Leonhard SIBOS 2016
Watch this pretty far-ranging interview, covering a lot of really important themes from my book and of course from The Future Show LIVE which premiered...
02
Oct 2016

Gerd Leonhard and The Future Show at SIBOS 2016: man machine futures, technology vs humanity?
This piece was published during Sibos 2016: Gerd-leonhard-SIBOS MAG 2016 pdf (download the PDF to read the entire piece) One of the keynote speakers at this year’s...
01
Oct 2016

Humans are going to have the edge over robots where work demands creativity (says Tim Dunlop) via TheGuardian
As I said, the point of capitalism is to destroy jobs, not create them.The second big change is post-industrialisation. Wealth is being created – not...