The Best and Worst Places to Be in the Coronavirus Era (great interactive charts via Bloomberg)
Really powerful interactive charts here via Blooomberg.com “As Covid-19 has ...
Really powerful interactive charts here via Blooomberg.com “As Covid-19 has ...
My futurist colleague Bertalan Mesko publishes a TON of good ...
Some of my most crucial messages are summarized in this ...
We're at a fork in the history of humanity. The next ten years will make or break humanity's future. It could be heaven or it could be hell. Where are we headed and what are the electric 3rd rails we need to avoid? Check out futurist Gerd Leonhard's acclaimed TEDx Modena talk here.
"America will always disappoint its most ardent detractors—and admirers. It’s a big, complicated place, and you can always find in it what you want. But the pandemic laid bare fissures that have been persistently widening. They were best described decades ago by the economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who wrote that America was defined by “private opulence and public squalor.” The United States has long had a dazzling private sector, but its public institutions, with a few exceptions—such as the independent, self-funded, and highly respected Federal Reserve—limp along. Washington can throw money at a problem, which often does the job eventually, but it cannot run a complex national program to serve a collective benefit. Social Security—whose job is mainly to write checks—works, while the Veterans Administration is a bloated, bureaucratic disaster... These ills of government are an American, not a democratic, disease. Many other democracies handled this pandemic effectively, better than any dictatorship. That list includes countries run by political parties of all stripes"
I'm having a riveting conversation with Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director ...
Download the free Megashifts Chapter from my book, here “You ...
The very word ‘normal’ has become kind of useless, and the idea of ‘business as usual’ is becoming laughable, as well. Instead, attempting to ‘pivot’ (switching horses in midstream) has become our new routine. Just ask AirBnB, Uber or Carnival Cruises, or any airline CEO, event organiser, restaurant owner or... futurist!
What happens when 3 senior futurists get together and talk about their combined 75 years of experience, discuss how Covid-19 is changing their lives and their roles, and ponder what they see coming towards us in the next 5-10 years? Find out more in this new episode of Gerd.Live
virtual keynote futurist gerd leonhard hacking rio
“As the economy contracts and many companies struggle to survive, ...
We ain't see nothing yet. And still I maintain that ...
Recently, a lot of people are emailing and messaging me ...
under a new and decidedly more coherent political leadership, America will once again rise to a responsible and reliable global player fuelled by technology, and this will commence in early 2021.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted all aspects of normal life, with enormous health, economic and social costs. It has also brought home the urgency of a decisive shift to sustainability. In Sustainability Trends Report 2020
The pandemic could shape the world, much as World War ...