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The Future of Social Media: Gerd Leonhard’s recent live-streaming show GerdTalks#3
“Technology is morally neutral until we use it”, you probably ...
Metaverse or MetaPerverse: Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s new speaking topic
The Metaverse was one of the initial topics of Gerd's new live show 'GerdTalks', held on YouTube with a reprise session on LinkedIn. And because it's such a deep and complex subject, it is quickly becoming a top-speaking topic for him.
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Feb 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 ...
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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 Audiobook Chapter for free, in multiple languages - links at the bottom of this post.
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Dec 2021
Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s take on the Metaverse / Metaperverse (new video): Heaven or Hell?
and experiences with AI-powered technological simulations become the biggest business opportunity ever? Will we stop bothering with a complicated, confusing and often exhausting reality when we can live in a perfectly orchestrated and comfortable virtual reality?
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Nov 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 ...
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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 see if the victim needs help."
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Aug 2021
Big Tech’s Domination of Business Reaches New Heights (via the NYT)
“As the economy contracts and many companies struggle to survive, ...
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Aug 2020
Must-watch summary of US congress hearing on tech regulation #digitalethics (via TheVerge)
technology regulation: too much of a good thing can be a very bad thing
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Jul 2020
Tech giants are profiting — and getting more powerful — even as the global economy tanks (via WaPo)
There are really two Americas right now,” said Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at the New York University Stern School of Business and author of “The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.” “There is Big Tech and there is everyone else. They can do what very few companies can do, which is play offense in the middle of a pandemic.”
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Apr 2020
Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game (must read via Stretchery) – is this the end of credit cards?
“Thus the federation of trust inherent in Libra, despite the ...
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Jun 2019
The Real Reason for Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency (must-read by Kevin Werbach, in the NYT)
“For all the controversies, Facebook’s profits remain strong and its ...
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Jun 2019
Surveillance Capitalism and the Platform Economy is humanly and societally unsustainable, and Facebook will go down with it
Read this for context: The brilliant book by ...
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May 2019
The best excerpts from Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s recent keynotes and interviews, on topics such as Technology and Humanity, the Megashifts and Digital Ethics
???? Please visit my Youtube channel for 500+ hours of films ...
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Apr 2019
Really nice piece about my work as futurist, humanist, author and film maker (in Spanish): GERD LEONHARD: “SE INVIERTE MUY POCO EN EDUCAR A LOS NIÑOS A SER MÁS HUMANOS”
Nice piece via the Foundacion Telefonica and Juan Zafra – ...
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Apr 2019
The dark and shady practices of Silicon Valley
Roger McNamee has been a Silicon Valley investor for 35 ...
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Mar 2019
Mark Zuckerberg And The Tech World Still Do Not Understand Ethics
Derek Lidow writes a great piece for Forbes, Mark Zuckerberg And ...
