

Here are my slides from this amazing event in Thimphu, Bhutan, today. Technology for Humanity: Managing a Disruptive World Disruption can displace existing market, industry or...

My new book “Technology vs Humanity” is now available for pre-reading and pre-ordering!
This is a big day – after 18 months of intense writing and crafting, my new book is finally ready to be published on September 8,...
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Jul 2016

Only the privileged fear a robot revolution? (No, I don’t agree but … read this anyway)
“When you think of the millions of lives that could be saved and improved by access to basic healthcare and education, it makes the idea...
20
Jul 2016

My comments on Artificial Intelligence and digital transformation (The Telegraph, Oliver Pickup)
This piece just went live on The Telegraph and it quotes me quite well:) Thanks to Oliver Pickup for the great interview. Here are some...
20
Jul 2016

How technology disrupted the truth : must read via TheGuardian
“Twenty-five years after the first website went online, it is clear that we are living through a period of dizzying transition. For 500 years after...
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Jul 2016
The Human Factor and the IoT
“Those who dismiss IoT over its first, wobbly steps with arguments like “I don’t need my toaster to talk to my refrigerator” or “IoT is...
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Jul 2016

Why We Need to Pick Up The Alvin Toffler (RIP) Torch
“All around, technology is altering the world: Social media is subsuming journalism, politics and even terrorist organizations. Inequality, driven in part by techno-abetted globalization, has...
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Jul 2016
New videos: recent FuturistGerd interviews (tech vs human, brands, and the future of business)
A few nice additions below! ... Read more
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Jul 2016

Microsoft’s CEO Explores How Humans and A.I. Can Solve Society’s Challenges. Made me think!
“First, we want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences. Ultimately, it’s not going to be about human vs. machine. We humans have...
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Jun 2016
Facebook is chipping away at privacy – and my profile has been exposed
“Quietly, over the last year, Facebook has killed the concept of a private account.”Facebook is chipping away at privacy – and my profile has been...
30
Jun 2016

My deck from Google Atmosphere Brazil June 9 2016: the future of work and leadership
Here is the deck from the Google event in Sao Paulo Future of Work Leadership Google Atmosphere Brazil Gerd Leonhard Public-web Best-of slides: ......
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Jun 2016

The future of marketing: man and machine (my deck from FODM 2016 in London)
Here is my deck from today's FODM event in London Future of marketing man or machine FODM 2016 London futurist gerd leonhard Public deck 40MB...
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Jun 2016
How bot-to-bot could soon replace APIs – important trend
“By now it’s clear that bots will cause a major paradigm shift in customer service, e-commerce, and, quite frankly, all aspects of software-to-human interaction.For the...
06
Jun 2016


Video and slides from my keynote at AMICE in Ghent: insurance, technology and the future (updated)
Here is the deck from today's AMICE event in Ghent (details) Technology Insurance Future AMICE 2016 Ghent Gerd Leonhard Public 40 MB PDF high res...
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Jun 2016

The 2016 Mary Meeker Internet Trends Report is here: HUGE resource, my fav stats
Dive in! KPCB source 2016 Internet Trends Report from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Some best-of's: ... Read more
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Jun 2016

My presentation at CommunicAsia / BroadcastAsia in Singapore, today: digital transformation 2020
As promised, here is the deck from my talk at CommunicAsia 2016. Read the Business Times Review. 2020 global digital transformation communicasia Gerd Leonhard Futurist Speaker-web...
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Jun 2016
Artificial Intelligence Is Far From Matching Humans, Panel Says…BUT (via NYT)
“Kate Crawford, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, called on the industry to add ethics to the professional training of engineers. “We need to start...