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Must-watch video: Futurist Gerd Leonhard Explains: Nature Deficit Disorder & Digital Obesity
Many people have asked me to explain what nature deficit disorder is, and what I mean when I speak about digital obesity. So I made...
New Interview with Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s comments on Digital Obesity
Swiss-German futurist and writer Gerd Leonhard drew attention to the vital risks of "digital obesity" in a forum organized by TedMEM Ankara, Turkey.
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Jun 2022
Join Gerd Leonhard for Gerdtalks #3: Why Facebook / Meta must be dismantled, how to reboot social media: Feb 21!
Futurist Gerd Leonhard has kicked off this year with a special new show called GerdTalks, a bi-weekly series of free LIVE events broadcasted via his YouTube channel,...
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Feb 2022
From Magic to Manic to Toxic: Free MP3 of chapter 6 from Futurist Gerd’s book ‘Technology vs Humanity’ (very timely:)
This is chapter 6 of my book 'Technology vs Humanity' and it seems to be more relevant than ever, so now you can download this...
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Dec 2021
The Metaverse…worse than Social Media? Gerd’s comments on a great Big Think piece by Louis Rosenberg
In a recent article on Big Think Louis Rosenberg (the augmented reality inventor) warns it could be far worse than social media”. I couldn't agree...
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Nov 2021
Facebook: The Largest Autocracy on Earth (‘The Atlantic). Gerd’s high-lights
"Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way." Adrienne LaFrance / Via 'The Atlantic' (my high-lights)
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Oct 2021
“It’s hard to be a moral person. Technology is making it harder.” Sigal Samuel on technology use (my high-lights)
"Many a bystander has witnessed a car accident or a fist-fight and taken out their phone to film the drama rather than rushing over to...
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Aug 2021
Language Teaching and Education after Covid-19: Audio Podcast of my Keynote at KOTESOL 2021
How to develop a Future Mindset? Why the end of routine does not mean the end of work...
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Mar 2021
Social media crack, the sofalarity and FOMO babies: my 3 most popular graphics
… below. Creative Commons non-commercial attribution license applies ... Read more
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Jul 2019
Good talk by Futures Agency member Antoni Lacinai: The Power of Analog Communication in an Ever More Digital World
Antoni is making some key points here – nicely done. As I like to say: Technology is great but humanity is greater! ... Read more
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Jul 2019
New podcast: conversation on Digital Ethics, Chapter 10 of Gerd Leonhard’s book ‘Technology vs Humanity’. Technology does not have ethics – but we must!
In this podcast Peter Van and me talk about Chapter 10 in my book Technology vs Humanity, on Digital Ethics. It is a fast-paced conversation...
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Apr 2019
Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant are changing how we interact with the world by doing it for us (via TheNextWeb, on VUIs)
“A survey of more than 1,500 online shoppers revealed that up to 43 percent of voice-enabled device users have used VUI (Voice User Interfaces) to...
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Apr 2019
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
Zuckerberg Wants Facebook to Build a Mind-Reading Machine
“The idea is to allow people to use their thoughts to navigate intuitively through augmented reality—the neuro-driven version of the world recently described by Kevin...
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Mar 2019
Please sign up for my Digital Ethics newsletter – this is the #1 technology topic in 2019
Go here to read the latest edition and sign up for this weekly summary of the best #digitalethics (the ethics of exponential technological change) finds...
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Feb 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
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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...
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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)...
