
New video: Futurist Gerd Leonhard in conversation with AT&T’s John Donovan (AT&T Shape LA)
John Donovan (AT&T's Chief Strategy Officer and Group President) and me had a pretty cool chat about technology, connectivity, media, creativity and humanity – check it...
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Aug 2017

My comments on “What Black Mirror, Her and the near-future genre tell us about tomorrow” (TheGuardian)
I was recently interviewed by Noah Berlatsky and his piece just went online at TheGuardian “Taking after George Orwell and JG Ballard, some of the most...
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Nov 2016

My open letter to the ‘Partnership on AI to benefit people and society’ (Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM, MSFT) just went online at Wired UK
Read it here and please spread the word ! Dear Francesca, Eric, Mustafa, Yann, Ralf, Demis and others at IBM, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon. The Partnership...
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Oct 2016

TV Interview on the future of technology, banking, digital ethics & humanity: Gerd Leonhard SIBOS 2016
Watch this pretty far-ranging interview, covering a lot of really important themes from my book and of course from The Future Show LIVE which premiered...
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Oct 2016

Gerd Leonhard and The Future Show at SIBOS 2016: man machine futures, technology vs humanity?
This piece was published during Sibos 2016: Gerd-leonhard-SIBOS MAG 2016 pdf (download the PDF to read the entire piece) One of the keynote speakers at this year’s...
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Oct 2016

Frank Ocean, Apple Music, And The Headache Of Streaming Exclusives – quoting my 2005 book “The Future of Music”
“This new reality differs from the one we were promised. Back in 2005, academics David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard envisioned an almost utopian world in...
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Aug 2016

New podcast interview with Gerd Leonhard: Technology vs Humanity? Via Digital Mindfulness
…published a few hours ago, here. Thanks to Lawrence Ampofo. Technology vs Humanity Opening Chapter Free Read Gerd Leonhard Read the preview PDF: Technology-vs.-Humanity-Ch-1-Prologue-to-the-Future Gerd Leonhard...
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Aug 2016

Gerd Leonhard: La tecnologia tra paradiso e inferno: good interview (in Italian)
“Puoi espandere il commento che fai nel video [Umanità vs Tecnologia], dove dici "vedremo più cambiamenti nei prossimi 20 anni rispetto ai 300 anni precedenti"?È...
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Jul 2016

My comments on Artificial Intelligence and digital transformation (The Telegraph, Oliver Pickup)
This piece just went live on The Telegraph and it quotes me quite well:) Thanks to Oliver Pickup for the great interview. Here are some...
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Jul 2016

Nice review of my work by CIO.co in Brazil (in Portuguese): comece já a olhar para 2020 e a preparar a sua empresa
By Cezar Turin (thanks Cezar!) “Para olhar à frente quebrando o paradigma da visão linear sugiro ver também o excelente vídeo do futurista Gerd Leonhard no...
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Jan 2016

RadioLiveNZ Interview with Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard on the hard futures: work, jobs, government, humanity, and more
Here is a nice interview with RadioLiveNZ, from my last trip to NZ, a few weeks ago. A big thank you to RadioLiveNZ! International technology...
09
Aug 2015

I’m #88 on the Wired (UK) top 100 influencers list!
For the September issue of WIRED surveyed their network to identify the 100 most influential people in Europe, and for some reason they decided to list...
05
Aug 2015

Great Guardian piece on automation, the IoT and the future of job, with some juicy Gerd quotes
I was interviewed for this piece last week – read it here. “If we do this wrong, the technology providers could end up destroying hundreds...
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May 2015

Inc. magazine lists me as one of the top 30 Internet of Things ‘experts’…
Inc magazine and John Rampton just published a list of the top 30 Internet of Things experts; and I am delighted to be included along...
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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

Here are some recent writings, interviews and features about my work (Gerd Leonhard, in GERMAN, auf Deutsch)
I have been getting a lot of press coverage in Switzerland, lately, which is great. Here are some recent features, press releases and interviews. If...


