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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...
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...
17
Mar 2016
After 20 Years, It’s Harder to Ignore the Digital Economy’s Dark Side – Don Tapscott nails it pretty well
“Technological utopians are being proven wrong by the facts: technology does not create prosperity, good democracy, and justice — humans do. To ensure that the...
16
Mar 2016
Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong (good gizmodo read)
“NYU research psychologist Gary Marcus has said that “virtually everyone” who works in AI believes that machines will eventually overtake us: “The only real difference...
14
Mar 2016
The Guardian view on robots and humanity: passing Go
“There are uncountable things that only a human can do, and that no computer seems close to. The problem is that the purely human things...
14
Mar 2016
A flashback from 2007: the complete FutureTalks DVD is now online: Glen Hiemstra, Ralph Simon, Gerd Leonhard discuss the key future trends
This is the complete 3 hours 30 minutes DVD edition of our 2007 Futuretalks sessions, moderated by Ralph Simon, with my futurist colleague Glen Hiemstra , discussing...
14
Mar 2016
Google as a Fortune Teller: The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism
Absolutely a key point !!“When we eliminate uncertainty, we forfeit the human replenishment that attaches to the challenge of asserting predictability in the face of...
10
Mar 2016
Apple vs. FBI: The tip of the iceberg as laws can’t keep up with tech
“This is a prelude of things to come, not only with encryption technologies, but everything from artificial intelligence to drones, robotics, and synthetic biology. Technology...
05
Mar 2016
Forget Apple’s fight with the FBI – our privacy catastrophe has only just begun (Cory Doctorow)
Cory Doctorow nails it -- I couldn't agree more !'Painting the pro-privacy side as out-of-step loonies, tinfoil-hatted throwbacks in the post-privacy era was a cheap...
05
Mar 2016
My latest newsletter just went out: issue #5 on AI, Humanity, Smart Cities, Robotics and more
Read it here MARCH 4 – ISSUE #5 Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard Futurist / Nowist, Global Keynote Speaker, Author, Host of The Future Show,...
04
Mar 2016
What if we don’t need advertising at all? Via Medium
“In the past we put up with being annoyed and yelled at by advertising. And now we’re putting up with being spied on and guessed...
