

I am delighted to announce that my company, The Futures Agency and me have been appointed to put together and present the program for a very...

The Future of Media: new slideshow (from some recent talks on this topic)
The future of media: summary by Futurist Gerd Leonhard from Gerd Leonhard Images below provided under creative commons attribution license (unless they contain 3rd party...
20
Jun 2014

▶ Hans Rosling – fossil fuel and income distribution in two minutes – brilliant video summary
via ▶ Hans Rosling – fossil fuel distribution in two minutes – YouTube. ... Read more
18
Jun 2014

My presentation on ‘Design to Disrupt’: the future at VINT2014 event (update: now with video)
As promised here are the slides from #vint2014 VINT2014 Design to Disrupt Futurist Gerd Public-web (low res 6MB PDF) High res version 34MB via Dropbox Updated...
17
Jun 2014

SwissCRM Forum: meine Slides / the slides from my SwissCRM presentation in Zuerich, today (in German)
As promised here are the slides from my talk on the future of CRM, Marketing, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, at SwissCRM Forum 2014. Zukunft...
11
Jun 2014

I am featured in today’s LeTemps newspaper in Switzerland (in French): Un futurologue demande de s’opposer à l’approche numérique américaine
This is a really great piece written by one of the best journalists I have ever met, Emmanuel Garessus, at Le Temps in Zürich and Genève, in...
10
Jun 2014

Google’s Sergey Brin on EU privacy laws “There’s a lot of vagueness there” (via Recode)
via Top 20 Code Conference Quotes | Re/code. Pic below also via Recode. Thanks! ... Read more
09
Jun 2014

TheFutureShow episode #4 is now available: the coming automation of everything
The 4th episode of my new web-TV series ‘The Future Show (TFS) with Gerd Leonhard' was just released, on the juicy topic of ‘the automation of...
08
Jun 2014
▶ A Message to Recent Graduates, from Nicholas Negroponte – YouTube
▶ A Message to Recent Graduates, from Nicholas Negroponte – YouTube. Nice message ! ... Read more
08
Jun 2014
▶ Interview with Gerd Leonhard, by Alain Brunet (future of the music business)
▶ Interview Gerd Leonhard par Alain Brunet – YouTube. From 2 years ago. More details here Guitariste de formation, musicien professionnel, auteur de cinq livres...
05
Jun 2014

Visit GerdCloud.net to download all my free books, essays, latest presentations etc
GerdCloud.com is where I make everything available for free downloading, i.e. my books, my essays, my PDFs, my presentation and videos – and yes, it's just...
05
Jun 2014
Watch how eerily Microsoft’s smart home of 1999 predicts our lives today (video via Quartz) but is playing catch-up, today
Watch how eerily Microsoft’s smart home of 1999 predicts our lives today – Quartz. Today, Microsoft is playing catch-up on trends from the shift to mobile to the cloud....
05
Jun 2014

Is your job at risk from robot labor? Check this handy interactive illustration (via Quartz.com)
Nice interactive chart. Vizuality at it's best (using Kevin Kelly's spelling) via Is your job at risk from robot labor? Check this handy interactive –...
05
Jun 2014

Hilarious fake Google Products (via PSFK)
These really hit the sweet spot I think…. read more at PSFK ... Read more
03
Jun 2014

What the New York Times Could Have Been (via LinkedIn, Michael Moriz, Sequoia Capital)
What the New York Times Could Have Been | LinkedIn found via Francois Mazoudier Really good piece on what went wrong with the NYT's digital strategy...
03
Jun 2014

The future of telecom and ICT: leadership in digital transformation (TeleMedia). Video of my presentation at Imperial Business School London
One of my best talks on the future of telecommunications, ICT and mobile Some images from this talk ... Read more
03
Jun 2014

▶ Introducing the iWatch – YouTube (hilarious video on wearables)
via ▶ Introducing the iWatch – YouTube. ... Read more