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Google now knows when its users go to the store and buy stuff (Wapo story)
“Google has begun using billions of credit-card transaction records to prove that its online ads are prompting people to make purchases – even when they...
What Google and Facebook must do about one of their biggest problems – Vivek Wadhwa
“It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Social media was developed with the promise of spreading democracy, community and freedom, not ignorance, bigotry and hatred....
14
Apr 2017
Futurist Gerd Leonhard: Open letter to the Partnership on AI (take 2)
When machines have an IQ of 50,000, what happens to human values and ethics? By Gerd Leonhard Futurist , Author Technology vs Humanity The partnership...
29
Jan 2017
Forget AT&T: What about Google and Facebook…? good read via the NYT
“Look at the numbers. Alphabet (the parent company of Google) and Facebook are among the 10 largest companies in the world. Alphabet alone has a...
16
Dec 2016
My deck from Google Atmosphere Brazil June 9 2016: the future of work and leadership
Here is the deck from the Google event in Sao Paulo Future of Work Leadership Google Atmosphere Brazil Gerd Leonhard Public-web Best-of slides: ......
11
Jun 2016
The global brain is coming: Google launches new AI in the cloud (videos). Hellven is certain!
Watch this video to get a glimpse of what's coming: search-as-we-know-it is dead or dying (ETA within 5 years), apps are becoming yesterday's way to interact...
21
May 2016
Here is the deck with my slides from Google Atmosphere in Santiago de Chile, today
Nice to be in Chile, finally! Here is my deck, as promised:) Atmosphere Chile Google Gerd Leonhard Future of work and business PUBLIC DECK-web PDF...
19
May 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
Must-watch talk on machine learning and AI: Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis. Will Silicon Valley be ‘Mission Control for Humanity’?
This is a brilliant talk by the founder of Deepmind, Demis Hassabis, that affords a good glimpse behind the scenes of Silicon Valley AI / Machine...
05
Jan 2016
The US government vs Apple and Google’s: the smartphone encryption discussion
“The US government and police officials are in the midst of a misleading PR offensive to try to scare Americans into believing encrypted cellphones are somehow a...
19
Dec 2015
Google is increasingly relying on artificial intelligence to enhance search results: the RankBrain is here
“Corrado says RankBrain is different from the “hundreds” of signals and technologies that contribute to Google’s Search algorithms in that it actually learns and improves over...
29
Oct 2015
Must-watch: have a conversation with Google Translate – YouTube (will our kids still learn languages?)
Finally catching up with SayHi :)) Pretty mind-boggling via Have a conversation with Google Translate – YouTube. ... Read more
16
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
The Future of Grocery Shopping with Glass – YouTube
The Future of Grocery Shopping with Glass – YouTube. Pretty impressive. and odd. ... Read more
28
Oct 2014
Must-watch video: fireside chat with Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin with Vinod Khosla (via The Verge)
Fireside chat with Google co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin with Vinod Khosla – YouTube. Will comment in more detail after I have digested the...
07
Jul 2014
Google Everywhere! (pretty funny and quite real comic) via Re/code
Google Everywhere! (Comic) | Re/code. ... Read more
28
Jun 2014
Episode 5 of TheFutureShow just went live: Offline is the new luxury
Because of the fact that I had a pretty bad mountain-bike accident last Saturday the release of this episode was slightly delayed – my apologies! So…...
26
Jun 2014
I am featured in today’s LeTemps newspaper in Switzerland (in French): Un futurologue demande de s’opposer à l’approche numérique américaine
This is a really great piece written by one of the best journalists I have ever met, Emmanuel Garessus, at Le Temps in Zürich and Genève, in...
