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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...
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...
01
Mar 2016
New video: keynote at IVSZ Budapest, on digital transformation
IVSZ slides ... Read more
29
Feb 2016
The disruptive forces of technology surrounding wealth management (Futurist Gerd Leonhard featured in UBS Asia video)
I went to HongKong in December 2015 to spend a day with the UBS Wealth Management team, and talk about the key future trends and...
29
Feb 2016
The Technium: Why Kevin Kelly does not worry about a Super AI (and I quite disagree on that)
I like kk's work but this dead-wrong !“The clear ethical programing AIs need to follow will force us to bear down and be much clearer...
28
Feb 2016
inverted totalitarianism
“The blind masses experiencing bread and circus adventures in Hyperreality while the ‘real’ world passes by entirely undetected. The ultimate triumph of inverted totalitarianism?In inverted...
24
Feb 2016
New video in German language: Zurück von der Zukunft – Digitale Transformation 2020 (Keynote at RWE Forum Essen, 11/2015)
Finally, here it is Please visit my German site for more details Hier sind die Slides von diesem Event in Essen Der Futurist Gerd Leonhard zeigt,...
23
Feb 2016
The age of digital ethics is beginning
...and everyone is buzzing with it: Accenture (digital trust, people first) CORDIS / EU (on Gerd Leonhard's TedX talk)Watch Gerd Leonhard's 2014 (!) Ted Talk...
20
Feb 2016
Is this all about freedom versus security? Apple vs the FBI
Read Vivek Wadwha's take on Apple vs FBIRead NYT's opinion piece
19
Feb 2016
Great quote on taking a holistic approach to knowledge, intelligence and technology (Arthur C. Clarke)
Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom,...
19
Feb 2016
Best GoodReads quotes on Artificial Intelligence (and some related stats, videos)
GoodReads is an incredible tool for finding great quotes and links to great books. Here are some about Artificial Intelligence. I have read most of...
19
Feb 2016
It would be truly remarkable if a Silicon Valley company rejected a profitable technology for ethical reasons (John Markoff)
This comment by John Markoff really nails it for me – couldn't have said it better myself! Be sure to read this latest book ‘Machines of...
19
Feb 2016
When is great technology enough…?
Read more on TechCrunch Point is, a little technology is amazing. But all technology, all the time is dystopia. And strutting and fretting our entire lives digitally...
18
Feb 2016
Our evolving relationship with technology
“Right now, at the frontier of technology, people are deciding the future of human-computer interaction. The Myo armband is one futuristic input among many. The...
