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Does googling our medical symptoms make us sicker – and is software ‘cheating the world’?
“The web has the potential to increase anxieties of people who have little or no medical training,” White and Horvitz concluded, “especially when web search...
Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology – Medium
“‘It may be a hundred years before a computer beats humans at Go — maybe even longer.” — New York Times, 1997“Master of Go Board Game Is Walloped by...
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Sep 2016
Stanford University One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence 2016 Report (AI100)
“As a society, we are underinvesting resources in research on the societal implications of AI technologies. Private and public dollars should be directed toward interdisciplinary...
06
Sep 2016
How Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence
“The specifics of what the industry group will do or say — even its name — have yet to be hashed out. But the basic...
04
Sep 2016
How do you get a job that doesn’t exist yet (Laurent Haug via WEF)
Great read here, by Futures Agency colleague Laurent Haug No one really knows which jobs will be automated in the future. But one thing is...
04
Sep 2016
Explore the key messages in Gerd Leonhard’s book ‘Technology vs Humanity’
(Updated Feb 10, 2017) My new book ‘Technology vs Humanity' has been available in print and electronic versions since September 2016. I am now getting way too many interview requests...
04
Sep 2016
Here are 100+ of my best recently used slides
Feel free to use them, based on my creative commons attribution non-commercial license 🙂 ... Read more
04
Sep 2016
My latest newsletter just went out: from tomorrow to today (issue #11)
Read and / or subscribe here From Tomorrow to Today: Futurist Gerd Leonhard's Best Reads and Links Futurist and Humanist. Global Keynote Speaker. Author. Film-Maker....
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Sep 2016
PRESS RELEASE: Gerd Leonhard’s new book: Technology vs. Humanity – The coming clash between man and machine
PRESS RELEASE: NEW BOOK – Technology vs. Humanity: The coming clash between man and machine Read the exclusive preview PDF: Technology-vs.-Humanity- Gerd Leonhard Preview In his...
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Sep 2016
Here’s a brand-new video clip introducing my new book “Technology vs Humanity” (Conversations with Gerd, episode #1)
We (TFA Studios) just launched a new video series called ‘conversations with Gerd' and the first episode is about my new book, Technology vs Humanity....
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Aug 2016
Big data, Google and the end of free will: must-read via the FT (Yuval Noah Harari)
“a fresh shift is taking place. Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies, and human authority was legitimised by humanist ideologies, so high-tech...
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Aug 2016
Interesting Infographic: Digital Assistants are coming!
“According to market research firm Tractica, the use of virtual digital assistants (VDAs) is going to increase sharply over the next few years. As our...
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Aug 2016
Frank Ocean, Apple Music, And The Headache Of Streaming Exclusives – quoting my 2005 book “The Future of Music”
“This new reality differs from the one we were promised. Back in 2005, academics David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard envisioned an almost utopian world in...
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Aug 2016
Insightful Max Planck and Peter Guber quotes
Consciousness is fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as...
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Aug 2016
Machines of Loving Grace. Interview with John Markoff. Good read !
“John Markoff: Ben Shneiderman, the University of Maryland computer scientist and user interface designer has written eloquently on this point. Indeed he argues against autonomous...
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Aug 2016
I already live in the future — and so should you – says Vivek Wadhwa
“Such rapid, ubiquitous change has, of course, a dark side. Many jobs as we know them will disappear. Our privacy will be further compromised. Future...
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Aug 2016
Of prediction and policy, via The Economist
“Machine-learning systems excel at prediction. A common approach is to train a system by showing it a vast quantity of data on, say, students and...
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Aug 2016
New podcast interview with Gerd Leonhard: Technology vs Humanity? Via Digital Mindfulness
…published a few hours ago, here. Thanks to Lawrence Ampofo. Technology vs Humanity Opening Chapter Free Read Gerd Leonhard Read the preview PDF: Technology-vs.-Humanity-Ch-1-Prologue-to-the-Future Gerd Leonhard...
