
Presentations, extra podcasts and videos of my talks: redefining the relationship of humans and machines (London #2015GLS and more).
Here are the slides from my presentations in London yesterday; both on the topic of how exponential technologies are impacting humanity. UPDATE: the videos just...
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Jun 2015

Architecting intelligence: AI as a utility – towards 2020. Here are the slides from the Envestnet Event in Trivandrum / India.
Envestnet TRV AI as utlity Gerd Leonhard Public Version-web 12MB PDF Read more about this event here Download: via Dropbox high res 45 MB PDF...
20
Jun 2015

The Internet of Things and its unintended consequences: why we should proceed with caution
Download the PDF version: The Internet of Things and its unintended consequences: why we should proceed with caution Download all my other stuff via GerdCloud/Dropbox The...
18
Jun 2015

Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard’s short film on technology versus humanity #techvshuman
I am very excited to announce the release of my new short film “Technology versus Humanity”. This film marks the beginning of a new period for...
28
May 2015

Download this new Osborne/Frey/Bakhshi report on creativity vs the robots and the future of work
Great stuff, here, found via the WSJ Bits blog Download here, directly: work osborn frey creativity_vs._robots_wv My related Twitter hashtags: #Workupation #Robotization #manmachine Some of the...
30
Apr 2015

The future of work and jobs: a short overview of the key issues, illustrations, stats and videos
The future of work and jobs has become a major topic for me. It is abundantly clear that the exponential digitisation, optimization, automation, virtualisation and...
25
Apr 2015

Exponential organisations, digital transformation and the future of banking: a short video conversation with keynote speakers Yuri Van Geest and Gerd Leonhard (TFA presents series #8)
There are some real nuggets in this talk my friend and colleague Yuri Van Geest, co-author of the must-read book ‘Exponential Organisations', discussing the future...
20
Apr 2015

TFA presents #7: the future of work and jobs. A conversation with futurists Rohit Talwar, Simon Torrance, Gerd Leonhard
https://youtu.be/RfWX0EP2vkk This seventh episode of ‘TFA presents' features futurists Simon Torrance, Rohit Talwar and Gerd Leonhard talking about the future of work, jobs, employment, HR...
09
Apr 2015

New video: the future of learning, education and training. Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard at Learning Technologies Conference London, 2015
This video includes my entire keynote plus the conversation with Steve Wheeler (the moderator). The LT15 slides and details are here. ... Read more
01
Apr 2015
Must-read piece by Tim Urban (WaitButWhy): The AI Revolution – Road to Superintelligence
read this: The AI Revolution: Road to Superintelligence – Wait But Why. Writes Tim: The reason this post took three weeks to finish is that as...
10
Mar 2015

A good quote on AI
John McCarthy, who coined the term “Artificial Intelligence” in 1956, complained that “as soon as it works, no one calls it AI anymore via The AI...
10
Mar 2015

Ethics, Robots, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Human Society: a good post by Joanna Bryson
Ethics, Robots, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Human Society by JJ Bryson really helped me understand AI better, and not just get more worried about it. Give it...
08
Mar 2015

▶ Brain-Inspired Computing – YouTube (IBM) – this is a huge shift
via ▶ Brain-Inspired Computing – YouTube. ... Read more
07
Mar 2015

New opinion piece on CNN Money: “the disturbing consequences of ultra-connectivity” (Gerd Leonhard)
CNN Money just published a new opinion piece penned by me, and edited by Alanna Petroff, in connection with their Mobile World Congress Barcelona coverage. Here are...
03
Mar 2015

New video: my opening keynote presentation at the ITU Telecom World Leadership Summit for the Future in Doha, Dec 7, 2014
Take a look at all related ITU Future Summit resources and links here Download the slides: ITU Future Summit Gerd Leonhard Opening Presentation-web ... Read more
25
Feb 2015

Short video on values in a digital world: technology does not have ethics, but the future of humanity depends on it
A short excerpt from my TedX Brussels talk ... Read more
18
Feb 2015

Great Podcast: James Hughes on “What is Technoprogressivism” (Review The Future), and my transcript
I ran across this ReviewTheFuture podcast with Prof. James Hughes of the IEET last week, and it provided so much food for thought that I...