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What does it mean to be human in the age of technology? (Tom Chatfield – The Guardian)
“This is an astonishing, disconcerting, delightful thing: the crowd in the cloud becoming a stream of shared consciousness.We think of ourselves as individual, rational minds,...
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Jan 2016

To Make AI More Human, Teach It to Chitchat (Wired)
Good and pretty funny read on Wired.com TOM WAS DISCUSSING the film star Tang Wei with a chatbot named XiaoIce, and the bot was excited: “A goddess!...
26
Jan 2016

Digital Ethics: The role of the CIO in balancing the risks and rewards of digital innovation
“What is digital ethics?In our hyper-connected world, an explosion of data is combining with pattern recognition, machine learning, smart algorithms, and other intelligent software to...
24
Jan 2016

My latest newsletter just went out – best links and must-reads January 2016
You can read it online here (and / or sign up for more). Join 10.000+ subscribers 🙂 ... Read more
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Jan 2016
Stop Being A Loner, It’ll Kill You: low social interaction has worse effects than obesity
“This paper mirrors the results of a 2013 study from Brigham Young University, which found that "low social interaction has the equivalent lifespan impact as...
19
Jan 2016
Meet the digital dissenters: They’re fighting for a better internet. Made me think
“Where do humans fit into this new economy? Really not as creators of value, but as the content. We are the content. We are the...
16
Jan 2016

The World in 2016: slides + video of Gerd Leonhard’s keynote on the future of business and humanity (Economist Gala 2016) UPDATED
Event Details Malta Economist Future 2016 Gerd Leonhard Public high res PDF 32 MB Malta Economist Future 2016 Gerd Leonhard Public-web Low Res 6.9 MB ...
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Jan 2016

Meet me in Malta tonight (Economist Gala event): ‘machines will have the power of a human brain by 2025’ via the Malta Independent
A nice preview of my keynote at tonight's event just went online at the Malta Independent. Some snippets: “By the year 2025, machines will have...
15
Jan 2016

What if the Internet Really Isn’t Social? What If It’s the Opposite? (asks Jason Gots)
“Marc Potenza, a psychiatrist at Yale who primarily studies alcohol and drug addiction says that “some people have posited that the Internet is a vehicle...
14
Jan 2016

A Taste of the Future: good read by Kim Araz (work, automation and IoT)
“The fact is that sooner than we can imagine, there will be masses of educated people suddenly finding themselves out of a job, no longer...
14
Jan 2016

How Facebook Makes Us Dumber – confirmation bias is a huge issue on large social networks
“As Del Vicario and her coauthors put it, “users mostly tend to select and share content according to a specific narrative and to ignore the...
13
Jan 2016

The Future of Business: towards a new relationship of technology and humanity (6 key findings by Futurist Gerd Leonhard)
We are at a pivot point: humanity will change more in the next 20 years than in the previous 300 years. Below are the 6 key challenges and opportunities...
12
Jan 2016

Important interview with Futurist Gerd Leonhard on IEET: Technology Could Bring Heaven on Earth, or Create Hell
IEET just published an interview with me here. Thanks to Hank Pellissier for making this happen. IEET: Can you expand on your comment in the video,...
09
Jan 2016

Nice review of my work by CIO.co in Brazil (in Portuguese): comece já a olhar para 2020 e a preparar a sua empresa
By Cezar Turin (thanks Cezar!) “Para olhar à frente quebrando o paradigma da visão linear sugiro ver também o excelente vídeo do futurista Gerd Leonhard no...
09
Jan 2016

Will we see Human-Animal Chimeras soon (must read by MIT Technology Review)
“The effort to incubate organs in farm animals is ethically charged because it involves adding human cells to animal embryos in ways that could blur...
08
Jan 2016
Rushkoff on the future of work, automation and the economic OS
“we may come to see that the values of the industrial economy are not failing under the pressures of digital technology. Rather, digital technology is...
08
Jan 2016

Watch Alain de Botton’s great talk on the philosophy of business and technology: the pursuit of wisdom
I really like Alain de Botton‘s work as it relates very much to my own desire to inject some #practicalwisdom (phronesis) into the conversation where- and whenever I...
