

Made me think! Why 2014 Could Be the Most Important Year in the History of the Internet https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/03/15/what-does-the-massive-comcast-time-warner-merger-m.aspx The war for the Internet has...

Crowd-funding platform Kickstarter launches iTunes film channel (OTT funding meets OTT distribution)
This is a fabulous idea and certainly bodes well for the future of crowd funding and OTT media distribution. Kickstarter paves the way – nice...
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Mar 2014

▶ New Video: Interview with me (CBS Executive Leading Media Program)
I have taught at CBS Leading Media and Entertainment in Copenhagen a few times now, and am delighted to be involved as a visiting faculty...
15
Mar 2014

Some of my quotes on Big Data and the Future of the Internet / ICT
The Sacramento Bee has a good list with some of my quotes on these topics: “We are in the final throes of the complete convergence...
15
Mar 2014

The Future of Advertising and Marketing (new set of images on Flickr)
These are some scenes from my recent presentation at the IAA India ‘Future Ready' Workshop in Mumbai. Download the low-res PDF 20MB 90 slides: IAA...
15
Mar 2014

On the Internet, everybody knows you’re a dog (paradigm reversal)
Just found this and it is so spot-on that I needed to share it. Thanks to KPCB. ... Read more
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Mar 2014

The Internet in 2025
Interesting summary below. Cyber-utopia or prescient prediction? According to Hal Varian, chief economist for Google, “The biggest impact on the world will be universal access...
14
Mar 2014

Tim Berners-Lee suggests digital magma carta (and once again fuels my own thinking;)
I just ran across this really important contribution by Tim Berners-Lee today. I penned a very much related piece for TheGuardian blog in October last year:...
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Mar 2014

The Future of The Professions and Professional Services (my presentation at the Managing Partners Forum in London today)
Here are the slides from talk and presentation at the Managing Partners Forum in London, today. We will have a video available soon, as well,...
12
Mar 2014

Has Privacy Become a Luxury Good? Via nytimes.com» by Julia Angwin
Great piece and must-read! In our data-saturated economy, privacy is becoming a luxury good. After all, as the saying goes, if you aren’t paying for...
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Mar 2014

Fraud on my Google Adwords Campaign? My bizarre experience in the past few days: Spam Farms Target my keywords?
Last week I started experimenting a bit with my Google Adwords campaigns. Needless to say that I run ads for ‘futurist' and ‘keynote speaker' etc,...
09
Mar 2014

The future of the Internet, Telecom and ICT (my presentation at Capacity Middle East in Dubai, today)
Here are the slides, as promised. More about Capacity ME here. High res PDF 25MB via owncloud. Low res PDF 5.2 MB via owncloud. gleonhard's...
03
Mar 2014

Good read: are we already living in the technological singularity? | via theguardian.com
Are we already living in the technological singularity? | Books | theguardian.com. The news has been turning into science fiction for a while now. TVs that watch the...
02
Mar 2014

Must-watch video: Stephen Colbert Rips NSA, Mt. Gox, Snowden in RSA Speech (Video) | Re/code
Hilarious – must watch. Colbert is great (at least in this case:) “I looked at the signatures on the online petition, then I looked at...
02
Mar 2014

Being human in a digital society (my presentation at FutureDay Istanbul, March 1 2014)
This was a pretty amazon event! As promised, Here is the PDF: Be human in a digital society FutureDay Istanbul Gerd Leonhard-web (Low res 5.1 MB PDF...
01
Mar 2014

Big data, big business, big brother (my new guest post on CNN.com)
Read this piece on CNN.com Download PDF: Big data, big business, Big Brother? – CNN.com Spanish version (via CNN) ” (CNN) — Let me start on a...
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Feb 2014

How Tech Is Creating Data “Cravability” To Make Us Digitally Obese (my guest post on Fast Co-Exist)
This just went online, here. Please add some fuel to this debate by spreading the word and commenting there. Thanks! Download the PDF: How Tech...
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Feb 2014

My presentation in Zürich today: Disruption, innovation, transformation and growth: the next 5-8 years in technology, media, business and commerce
Download the PDF (17 MB via Dropbox). Low res version: Next 5 years in technology, media and business Gerd Leonhard Futurist-web ... Read more