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Beware the rise of the digital oligarchy (good read via the Guardian)
“Our personal data reflects our interests, our desires: it is a digital extension of our soul. By giving it away so freely to social networks,...
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
Nice new feature about my work as a futurist and my views on Switzerland (Le Matin, IN FRENCH)
If you speak French, take a look here. Thanks to Fabien Feissli for a great interview and good story-telling:) «La Suisse est très en retard» Le...
05
Feb 2015
▶ Amazon’s Echo digital assistant: will ‘outsourcing our brains’ become the new normal?
▶ Introducing Amazon Echo – YouTube. Is this a good thing… and what is next? And… will this device just LISTEN ALL THE TIME? https://youtu.be/KkOCeAtKHIc...
12
Jan 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
Good review of my TedX talk on Digital Ethics
… just found this via the Cordis / EU site. Very good summary of my talk (see below) ‘Is Google tracking your every step creepy...
04
Jan 2015
Digital Ethics: video and slides from my presentation at TedX Brussels
Digital Ethics Gerd Leonhard TedXBrussels Futurist Speaker-web 9mb PDF High res version via Dropbox (30MB PDF) More details and lifestream here Great illustration of my...
01
Dec 2014
Meet me at Maximum Mumbai Dec 12 2014, Keynote on Working, Learning and Living in the Future
I really look forward to this engagement at Maximum Mumbai ... Read more
16
Nov 2014
The slides with my presentation at RDV Media in Montreal: Future of Media and Marketing in a digital world
Here are the slides from today's event in Montreal, as promised!: Future of Media Marketing Montreal Gerd Futurist Speaker PUBLIC-web 12 MB PDF Dropbox version:...
11
Sep 2014
• Chart: People Rarely Unplug From Technology (via Statista)
Not surprising but still pretty amazing… I wonder if this is different in Europe? These days, people are addicted to their smartphones, tablets and laptops....
26
Aug 2014
Interesting NYT piece on the Sharing Economy: Workers Find Both Freedom and Uncertainty?
A really interesting post presenting some of the key issues behind the rise of ‘sharing economy' leaders such as Uber, Lyft, TaskRabbit and AirBnB. Some...
