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Welcome to the new feudalism – with Silicon Valley as our overlords | Evgeny Morozov
“Advertising might have been a necessary evil to get these companies off the ground, but there is no reason to stick with it for ever,...
You Can’t Escape Data Surveillance In America (via The Atlantic)
“We peer into a future where our software spies on us, our data defines us, and our hardware reinforces existing power imbalances. What’s slowing it...
01
May 2016
Mark Zuckerberg thinks AI will start outperforming humans in the next decade
“Zuckerberg sees bots stepping in for customer service reps and personal assistants. "One way that I think you're going to see bots work, between people...
29
Apr 2016
The Threats That Artificial Intelligence Researchers Actually Worry About – good read
“A.I. safety researchers strongly disagree: There is no reason to believe that we will be able to control generally intelligent, let alone superintelligent, systems. In...
29
Apr 2016
My presentation at the Digital Economy Forum in Zürich. today
is now available on my German site ... Read more
27
Apr 2016
My latest ‘from tomorrow to now’ newsletter just went out (issue #7)
You can read it here Is pharma the next music business? Beyond the Pill: Data Is the New Drug |“Pharma companies must change their...
25
Apr 2016
The latest exponential and combinatorial illustration of what the future will bring (via Frank Diana)
Frank always has some thoughtful stuff to contribute – read more here For those new to the visual, it attempts to identify several factors that...
23
Apr 2016
Google believes its superior AI will be the key to its future (the global brain is near?)
“In the long run, I think in we will evolve in computing from a mobile-first to an AI-first world," Pichai said in closing. "And I...
22
Apr 2016
The Philosophical Argument Against A.I. Killing Us All..?
“there’s another counterargument to be made based on the philosophy of ethics. Until an A.I. has feelings, it’s going to be unable to want to...
22
Apr 2016
The Future of HR – my presentations at HRExpo Brussels
Here are the slides from today's event Keynote session (evening): Future of HR keynote Gerd Leonhard Public Workshop (afternoon session Future of HR Workshop HRExpo gerd leonhard...
21
Apr 2016
My presentation at SubOptic 2016 in Dubai: the world in 2020 – the future of technology and more
Here are the slides from my talk at SubOptic in Dubai today In this keynote for SubOptic 2016, Gerd will share his 2020 foresights on...
20
Apr 2016
The funny things happening on the way to singularity (via TechCrunch)
“Machines will be better at math, science and engineering than we will.”The funny things happening on the way to singularityhttps://social.techcrunch.com/2016/04/09/the-funny-things-happening-on-the-way-to-singularity/via Instapaper
19
Apr 2016
Here is the deck from RAS2016 (Radio Advertising Summit 2016) in Düsseldorf (in German)
on my German-language site Werbung Radio 2020 RAS16 Gerd Leonhard Public Deck-web low res 9MB High Res via Dropbox 40 MB PDF Unsere Welt wird...
14
Apr 2016
Imperial Ambitions: Mark Zuckerberg and AI (must-read via The Economist)
“In a decade’s time computing seems likely to take the form of AR interfaces mediated by AI, using gestures and speech for inputs and the...
12
Apr 2016
Medium and Twitter founder Ev Williams says it all: ‘We put junk food in front of them and they eat it’
“It’s understandable why media on the web is like it is today,” Williams tells the Guardian. “That’s not to say there’s not a lot of...
11
Apr 2016
My latest newsletter just went out: jobs, work, AI and… the future. And happy Easter!
Read it all here (and / or sign up:)) Greetings everyone, Greetings from Switzerland. First, my new 2016 show-reel is now online on Youtube and on my site. It’s a 3-minute-15-seconds...
23
Mar 2016
Here is my brand-new 2016 show-reel: 3 minutes 15 seconds on what I do, and how I do it (Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard)
This is huge !!!! A big thanks to my brilliant art director and producer Jean Francois Cardella. Finally, here is an easy way to understand...
18
Mar 2016
Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 1
“Artificial intelligence may well help solve the most complex problems humankind faces, like curing cancer and climate change – but in the near term, it...
