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IBM’s global C-Suite Study 2015. Key message: form your own futures squad!
IBM just published their 2015 global C-Suite study – and it points clearly in one direction: companies and their leaders are spending more time and resources on...
Media release: meet Futurist Gerd Leonhard in Malta 1/15/2016: Economist Gala Dinner Keynote
What is the Future of Humanity in a World of Exponential Technological Change? The internationally renowned Futurist, Author and Speaker Gerd Leonhard has been confirmed...
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Dec 2015
The Singularity, Virtual Immortality and Consciousness: Simulation is not duplication (via Robert Lawrence Kuhn)
Totally spot-on !!“The one mistake we must avoid,” Searle cautioned, “is supposing that if you simulate it, you duplicate it. A deep mistake embedded in...
04
Dec 2015
The Slides from my presentation at RWE Forum 2015 in Essen /Germany (in German)
… are now available on my German blog Other posts in German Some best-of pics: ... Read more
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Nov 2015
My new newsletter just went online, using the cool new Revue platform
check it out here ... Read more
30
Nov 2015
Great theme and video: labels are for cans not for people (coca cola ad campaign)
Didier Marlier, a good friend, leadership expert and fellow Futures Agency speaker / member, posted a great story about labelling people today, here, entitled “relationships are...
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Nov 2015
The slides: BiznesTrendy event in Warsaw: digital transformation and the future of business
yes… this a popular topic right now:)) Link to the event digital transformation society warsaw biznestrendy High Res 20MB PDF digital transformation society warsaw biznestrendy Low Res...
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Nov 2015
How websites and apps are designed for compulsion, even addiction. Do we need regulation? M. Schulson via AEON (relates to my digital obesity meme)
Michael Schulson via the great Aeon site https://aeon.co/essays/if-the-internet-is-addictive-why-don-t-we-regulate-it "In the 2000s, users nicknamed the first mainstream smartphone the crackberry. In conversation, we describe basic tools and apps...
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Nov 2015
Is Hello Barbie every parent’s worst nightmare? Great debate.
“Hello Barbie isn’t a therapy doll—especially because it talks rather than providing a blank slate for the kind of role-play Smirnova describes—but it is uniquely...
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Nov 2015
Hilarious video: a video conference call in real life
Hilarious – and so very true:)… and of course a great commercial for Zoom:)) ... Read more
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Nov 2015
Has technology set us free, or shackled us to our screens? Good read by Tom Chatfield — Aeon
“It’s a point that has been emphasised by much recent research into thought and behaviour. To quote from Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) by Nobel...
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Nov 2015
The 150 Things the World’s Smartest People Are Afraid Of (some nice quotes here)
The 150 Things the World's Smartest People Are Afraid Ofhttps://motherboard.vice.com/blog/what-150-of-the-worlds-smartest-scientists-are-worried-about (via Instapaper) Gerd Leonhard Futurist, Keynote Speaker, Author Wired top 100 influencer https://gerd.fm/wired88 Basel / Switzerland...
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Nov 2015
The Doomsday Invention – must read on AI
“Before the prospect of an intelligence explosion, we humans are like small children playing with a bomb,” he concludes. “We have little idea when the...
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Nov 2015
The digital transformation of shared services – slides from my keynote in Stockholm today
From my talk at Nordic Shared Services Digital transformation shared services nordic gerd leonhard speaker public High Res 20 PDF Low res version 4.1 MB PDF Digital...
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Nov 2015
Robot revolution: rise of ‘thinking’ machines could exacerbate inequality
A lot of great nuggets in this piece - will comment in more detail later “Andrew Simms, of thinktank the New Weather Institute, said the...
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Nov 2015
On artificial intelligence, jobs and growth: “Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us”. Good read and link to new BoAML report
“If you wanted relief from stories about tyre factories and steel plants closing, you could try relaxing with a new 300-page report from Bank of...
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Nov 2015
The best story for understanding exponentiality: rice corns on the chessboard (video)
Just found this video:) Here is the best written explanation of the concept The must-read book Exponential Organisations, by my colleague Yuri van Geest Podcast,...
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Nov 2015
Why happiness should be your business model — Good read
“There’s a new breed of entrepreneur choosing happiness before profits” Why happiness should be your business model — The Happy Startup School https://medium.com/the-happy-startup-school/why-happiness-should-be-your-business-model-f866d92cd898 via Instapaper...
