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Why We Need to Pick Up The Alvin Toffler (RIP) Torch
“All around, technology is altering the world: Social media is subsuming journalism, politics and even terrorist organizations. Inequality, driven in part by techno-abetted globalization, has...
Microsoft’s CEO Explores How Humans and A.I. Can Solve Society’s Challenges. Made me think!
“First, we want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences. Ultimately, it’s not going to be about human vs. machine. We humans have...
30
Jun 2016
Facebook is chipping away at privacy – and my profile has been exposed
“Quietly, over the last year, Facebook has killed the concept of a private account.”Facebook is chipping away at privacy – and my profile has been...
30
Jun 2016
The future of marketing: man and machine (my deck from FODM 2016 in London)
Here is my deck from today's FODM event in London Future of marketing man or machine FODM 2016 London futurist gerd leonhard Public deck 40MB...
07
Jun 2016
Advertising Cannot Maintain the Internet. Here’s the “Secret Sauce” Solution. Via Evonomics and David Brin
“Andrew Keene asserts in The Internet is not the Answer, our vaunted digital connections aren’t serving average folk. His complaint can be summarized:1. Security flaws...
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May 2016
Google CEO Predicts The End Of Computers As A Device – must read!
“Looking to the future, the next big step will be for the very concept of the "device" to fade away. Over time, the computer itself—whatever...
24
May 2016
There’s No Such Thing as Free Will – great if maybe troubling story via TheAtlantic
“In recent decades, research on the inner workings of the brain has helped to resolve the nature-nurture debate—and has dealt a further blow to the...
22
May 2016
After three weeks in China, it’s clear Beijing is Silicon Valley’s only true competitor
“In China, there is a company work culture at startups that's called 9/9/6. It means that regular work hours for most employees are from 9...
17
May 2016
Siri’s creators say they’ve made something better that will take care of everything for you (my take : we’re heading towards the global brain)
“The stealthy, four-year-old Viv is among the furthest along in an endeavor that many in Silicon Valley believe heralds that next big shift in computing...
08
May 2016
Google believes its superior AI will be the key to its future (the global brain is near?)
“In the long run, I think in we will evolve in computing from a mobile-first to an AI-first world," Pichai said in closing. "And I...
22
Apr 2016
Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 1
“Artificial intelligence may well help solve the most complex problems humankind faces, like curing cancer and climate change – but in the near term, it...
17
Mar 2016
The Guardian view on robots and humanity: passing Go
“There are uncountable things that only a human can do, and that no computer seems close to. The problem is that the purely human things...
14
Mar 2016
Google as a Fortune Teller: The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism
Absolutely a key point !!“When we eliminate uncertainty, we forfeit the human replenishment that attaches to the challenge of asserting predictability in the face of...
10
Mar 2016
Forget Apple’s fight with the FBI – our privacy catastrophe has only just begun (Cory Doctorow)
Cory Doctorow nails it -- I couldn't agree more !'Painting the pro-privacy side as out-of-step loonies, tinfoil-hatted throwbacks in the post-privacy era was a cheap...
05
Mar 2016
My IVSZ/ MTA Academy presentation in Budapest (PDF): the digital transformation of society: UPDATE: Video, as well
From today's event in Budapest as promised ! 12 MB PDF Digital Transformation of Society Business Budapest FuturistGerd Public PDF A konferencia vezérelőadója a svájci...
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Feb 2016
Anticipatory computing: short WSJ video on: Apple, Google: We Know What You Want Before You Do
Read the WSJ piece (if you can make it past their annoying pay wall) Watch and think. Where is this going? A cloud-OS of outsourced...
08
Feb 2016
New interview on IIET: Basic Income Guarantee will allow us to move up the Maslow Pyramid
By Hank Pellissier READ THE POST HERE Gerd Leonhard is an acclaimed European futurist; his popular videos are featured at IEET and he is a regular...
07
Feb 2016
What does it mean to be human in the age of technology? (Tom Chatfield – The Guardian)
“This is an astonishing, disconcerting, delightful thing: the crowd in the cloud becoming a stream of shared consciousness.We think of ourselves as individual, rational minds,...
