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Social media crack, the sofalarity and FOMO babies: my 3 most popular graphics
… below. Creative Commons non-commercial attribution license applies ... Read more
New Podcast! Chapter 7: The Digital Obesity Pandemic
Here is our latest podcast based on Chapter 7 of Gerd's best-selling book Technology vs Humanity (Now available in 11 languages!) This week Peter and I covered...
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Mar 2019
Offline is the new luxury! A short conversation with Futurist, Keynote Speaker and Author Gerd Leonhard
Download the MP4 file: PUBLIC #6-Offline-Luxury-GERD-LEONHARD-Sophia-series-2018 low res2 34MB All else at http://www.gerdcloud.net 🙂 ... Read more
03
Aug 2018
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? Some serious food for thought via The Atlantic
“a generation shaped by the smartphone and by the concomitant rise of social media. I call them iGen. Born between 1995 and 2012, members of...
04
Aug 2017
Resist the Internet – read this nicely put heretic piece
“Compulsions are rarely harmless. The internet is not the opioid crisis; it is not likely to kill you (unless you’re hit by a distracted driver)...
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Mar 2017
Feature in Blick am Abend (Switzerland, in German): Zukunft des Reisens, Futurist Gerd Leonhard
If you speak / read German, this was just published in Blick am Abend here in Switzerland. Enjoy. BlickamAbend_2015-04-08 1 Gerd Leonhard Reise Zukunft (PDF)...
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Apr 2015
Good example of how obsession with our mobile devices may cause us to miss out on the best things in life…
… the picture pretty much says it all:) A sign of the times. #canon_photos A photo posted by Eric J. Smith (@esmith_images) on Feb 2, 2015...
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Apr 2015
The Apple Watch looks good – too good, actually: distractions + outsourced thinking spells digital obesity
Update: read this very much related Guardian article on why multi-tasking and constant task-switching is bad for our brains. So I looked at those cool...
12
Mar 2015
My best ‘digital heretic’ slides so far
In the past 2 years – since the summer of Snowden, really – I have become much more critical of technology, and am probing more...
11
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
Digital obesity and the obsession with MORE: watch this ‘Black Mirror’ teaser to visualize where we might be headed (dystopia alert!)
… and watch the Black Mirror episodes after that (now available on Netflix). A future without what I call ‘digital ethics' will very likely look...
08
Jan 2015
Sonae FINCO’14 – Flash Interview with Gerd Leonhard on Digital Obesity and what makes us human
In this short video short at SONAE's Finco event in Lisbon (see more here, including my slides) I comment on topics such as the future of...
30
Oct 2014
WE THE DATA – 2 nice videos via YouTube #datamyning (John Perry Barlow)
via WE THE DATA – YouTube. ... Read more
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Oct 2014
Great Video on what I call digital obesity: Can We Auto-Correct Humanity? – YouTube (Prince Ea)
Can We Auto-Correct Humanity? – YouTube. Thanks to Jonathan Marks for sharing this. Read my post on Digital Obesity. ... Read more
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Oct 2014
The future of connectivity, big data and consumer rights: my slides from the ACCAN ‘connecting today’s consumer’ conference in Sydney
From today's ACCAN event Direct download: The Future of Connectivity Big Data Consumer Rights Gerd Leonhard Futurist Speaker PUBLIC-web PDF 9 MB Low res 9MB...
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Sep 2014
The Pointlessness of Unplugging : The New Yorker (good read related to my Digital Obesity meme)
Interesting point below; yet I think of unplugging more like scheduling a diet – just having a few days where you eat less, and get...
