

Read more about my gig at MoJoCon Dublin. Thanks to RTE und MojoCon for making this video available. ... Read more

Inc. magazine lists me as one of the top 30 Internet of Things ‘experts’…
Inc magazine and John Rampton just published a list of the top 30 Internet of Things experts; and I am delighted to be included along...
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Mar 2015

Videos and the PDF with my slides from my keynote at MojoCon Dublin: the future of (mobile) media.
More about this event Go here to get view the videos and presentations shared by Glen Mulcahy RTÉ MojoCon Ireland is the first international conference focusing on...
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Mar 2015

Digital transformation: the key points and some bottom lines by keynote speaker Gerd Leonhard
Me and my colleagues at The Futures Agency are getting a lot of speaking requests on the Digital Transformation topic (or should I say ‘meme') so I figured it would be...
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Mar 2015

▶ Watch this clip about the #PrivacyProject – amazing how little most people know about what their mobiles do with their data
via ▶ #PrivacyProject – YouTube. Watch TheFutureShow episode on privacy Some related images ... Read more
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Mar 2015

Download Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s books for free (PDF), via GerdCloud: Future of Content, Friction is Fiction and more
Greetings, as you may know, I have shared most of my books via my “GerdCloud” public dropbox folder for quite some time now. Just in case you've...
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Mar 2015

Interesting Chart: Global Trust Levels In Business And Governments (via Statista), my 2 cents
80 percent of people surveyed in 27 markets across the globe distrust their governments, businesses or both, according to Edelman's 2015 Trust Barometer. Looking at...
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Mar 2015

Gerd Leonhard’s Megashifts: digitization, mobilisation, screenification, disintermediation, decentralisation, automation, intelligization, virtualization, anticipation, robotisation
It seems like all those ‘…ation'-words are naturally converging right now; in almost every keynote I am touching on these trends that may, on one...
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Mar 2015

New video: digital transformation in travel, tourism, airlines: TFA presents #6 (conversation)
This sixth episode of ‘TFA presents' features futurists Simon Torrance, Rohit Talwar and Gerd Leonhard talking about the future of travel, tourism, airlines, and how...
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Mar 2015

Meet me at the CEOClubs Greece event in Athens April 28, 2015: the next 7 years in business
I am delighted to do another event with the CEO Clubs organization, following my engagement in Bucharest last year. This one will be held in...
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Mar 2015

Video and slides from my keynote on #NewWayToWork for IBM at Cebit Hannover
More details on this event UPDATE June 15 2015: here is the video with my keynote NewWayToWork Gerd Leonhard Cebit March 2015 IBM Public-web 5...
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Mar 2015

A Sucker Is Optimized Every Minute – why total optimisation is not…optimal (good read via NYT)
The gut is dead. Long live the data, turned out day and night by our myriad computers and smart devices. Not that we trust the...
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Mar 2015

Gerd Leonhard latest finds, resources and inspirations: Newsletter # 6 / 2015
FIRST Last week, I wrote a new piece for CNN Money on the consequences of over-connectivity. I would love your take and feedback on my key...
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Mar 2015

New video: The future of learning – how our learning landscape is set to change (LT 15 London)
This video with my keynote at Learning Technologies 2015 in London just went online… see this related post which includes the PDF with my slides...
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Mar 2015

Meme of the day: connectivity defines modern prosperity, yet offline is the new luxury
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Mar 2015

The future of music: streaming to 2 Billion ‘paying’ users – if only the industry would allow it!
Update: cartoon via TheOatmeal (hat tip to Harriett Brand). Good read on QZ.com. Lately, it seems like I just can't escape the increasing coverage on much...
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Mar 2015

The Apple Watch looks good – too good, actually: distractions + outsourced thinking spells digital obesity
Update: read this very much related Guardian article on why multi-tasking and constant task-switching is bad for our brains. So I looked at those cool...
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Mar 2015

My best ‘digital heretic’ slides so far
In the past 2 years – since the summer of Snowden, really – I have become much more critical of technology, and am probing more...