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Interesting Chart: NSA Monitoring Practices Face Stiff Opposition | Statista
• Chart: NSA Monitoring Practices Face Stiff Opposition | Statista. This is an interesting chart provided by Statista – 3x as many people think this is...
Knowledge Doubling Every 12 Months, Soon to be Every 12 Hours (some pretty amazing stats via IndustryTap)
Some pretty amazing stats here (even though this is from 2013:) Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge...
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Jul 2014
Emerging and Developing Nations Want Internet Freedom (stats via Mashable)
Emerging and Developing Nations Want Internet Freedom. According to a new report from Pew Research Center, data shows that people in emerging nations around the world want...
09
Jul 2014
Climate Change and Financial Instability Seen as Top Global Threats | Pew Research
Climate Change and Financial Instability Seen as Top Global Threats | Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project. It's about time we get this. ... Read...
09
Jul 2014
New Gerd Leonhard Feature at Forbes.com “Don’t Confuse Marketing With Value Creation”
Kavi Guppta just published a nice, short piece about my work over at Forbes.com. Cool! What is your daily reading habit? I have a very...
08
Jul 2014
This is a cartoon about RISK that most of my clients need to look at… (via the brilliant ‘marketoonist’ Tom Fishburne)
… just licensed this brilliant cartoon via Tom's site ... Read more
07
Jul 2014
Must-watch video: fireside chat with Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin with Vinod Khosla (via The Verge)
Fireside chat with Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin with Vinod Khosla – YouTube. Will comment in more detail after I have digested the...
07
Jul 2014
Featured Interview in NZZ today “Offline is the new luxury” (in German language)
I was featured in the Neue Züricher Zeitung (NZZ), one of the biggest Swiss newspapers today (yes, all digeratis love print:), interview-style (33 questions), in...
07
Jul 2014
▶ Jeremy Rifkin on Singularity 1 on 1 (video)
▶ Jeremy Rifkin on Singularity 1 on 1 – YouTube. I am a great fan of Jeremy Rifkin and his ‘collaborative commons' and ‘zero marginal...
06
Jul 2014
What’s a futurist and how can I get a job like that? (nice piece via the Sydney Morning Herald)
Personally, I would offer the explanation that most of my work is about this old Poincare quote: “Logic proves Intuition discovers”… But here are my fav...
02
Jul 2014
The byzantine, meandering discussion on the future of the internet (recommended reading)
“Last week, nearly 3,500 people met in London to discuss management of the internet. Yet judging from the media coverage, it was less newsworthy than...
01
Jul 2014
10 Breakthrough Innovations That Will Shape The World In 2025 (recommended reading)
“What world-changing scientific discoveries might we see by 2025? Will we have more energy technologies that move us away from fossil fuels? Will there be...
01
Jul 2014
Jeffrey Bezos, Washington Post’s next owner, aims for a new ‘golden era’ at the newspaper (Gerd’s must-reads)
“We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent....
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Jun 2014
The robot apocalypse will look a lot like this game (a good-read shared by Gerd)
“How can you not be freaked out by the real, tangible progress in robotics from DARPA and Boston Dynamics?” Hattem asks. “Imagine all the crazy...
29
Jun 2014
Google Everywhere! (pretty funny and quite real comic) via Re/code
Google Everywhere! (Comic) | Re/code. ... Read more
28
Jun 2014
Short video clip from my talk on Digital Transformation at IICO 2014 (in German)
Just went live on my new German blog ‘DerFuturist.com' ... Read more
27
Jun 2014
Episode 5 of TheFutureShow just went live: Offline is the new luxury
Because of the fact that I had a pretty bad mountain-bike accident last Saturday the release of this episode was slightly delayed – my apologies! So…...
26
Jun 2014
ProtonMail: a new Swiss Secure Mail Provider (is Switzerland waking up to the ‘secure swiss cloud’ idea?)
I have been talking about this huge opportunity for Switzerland ever since the ‘summer of Snowden', and finally we are seeing some action on this....
