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AI’s Rise: A Urgent Call for New Economics.
Here is an important realisation I have recently arrived at: AI is taking over the Internet, there is no way to go back to what...
Time to move up the Pyramid of Work: From information and data to understanding, purpose, wisdom
The future of work and jobs is becoming a hot-potato topic as the Megashifts such as automation, cognification, robotisation and virtualisation loom large - and...
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Mar 2021
The best excerpts from Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s recent keynotes and interviews, on topics such as Technology and Humanity, the Megashifts and Digital Ethics
Please visit my Youtube channel for 1500+ hours of films and keynote videos ... Read more
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Apr 2019
Tim Renner & Gerd Leonhard Beitrag in „Die Welt”. Wacht auf! Mensch, Technologie und die Zukunft der Politik (MIT VIDEO) German / French
Erschienen am 11.8.2018 in DIE WELT (Achtung: Paywall). Post auf RennerLeonhard.com ansehen. FRENCH translation by Goethe Institut Kanada Update: jetzt mit Video; Science Fiction wird...
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Aug 2018
The Real Story of Automation Beginning with One Simple Chart (Via Scott Santens)
“What should be immediately apparent is that as the number of oil rigs declined due to falling oil prices, so did the number of workers...
27
Oct 2017
New video: Futurist Gerd Leonhard in conversation with AT&T’s John Donovan (AT&T Shape LA)
John Donovan (AT&T's Chief Strategy Officer and Group President) and me had a pretty cool chat about technology, connectivity, media, creativity and humanity – check it...
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Aug 2017
Artificial Intelligence And Income Inequality (via HuffPo)
“Income inequality is a well recognized problem. The gap between the rich and poor has grown over the last few decades, but it became increasingly...
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Mar 2017
The Gradual Disappearance of Jobs – very good read on UBI and negative income tax
“Once Moravec’s paradox is relegated to the history books, formerly protected unskilled low wage jobs will disappear due to automation. The only jobs to persist...
26
Jan 2017
The Coming Tech Backlash – NewCo Shift
“50% of the jobs will be gone in ~20 years. Not from the great sucking sound of jobs to Mexico that can be stopped with...
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Jan 2017
Is Universal Basic Income the Answer to an Automated Future? Via Peter Diamandis
“the most compelling study demonstrating how universal basic income could work comes from a small town in Canada.From 1974 to 1979, the Canadian government partnered...
