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Must-read on moonshot thinking in Medical / Life-Sciences (via The Economist)
“An RNA vaccine against any disease is a message written in genetic code: a vaccine against malaria, or some form of cancer, can be made...
Announcing The Fork In The Road Project – Please Join Us!
https://forkintheroadproject.com/ Today, I am delighted to invite all interested readers, friends, clients and fellow futurists to consider and join an important new initiative. Together with...
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Mar 2021
Covid-19 Will Accelerate the AI Health Care Revolution (Must-read) by Kai Fu Lee
The potential goes beyond diagnosis and treatment. Getting appointments, paying insurance bills, and other processes should be much less painful. AI combined with robotic process...
14
Jun 2020
Here are the videos, audio, images and polls from our live debate: Humanist vs Transhumanist
Read more about this event here. My Futures Agency colleague and fellow futurist Calum Chace disagrees with me on many of my core messages on topics such...
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Apr 2020
Join us for the Transhumanist vs. Humanist Online Debate with Calum Chace and Gerd Leonhard April 23rd 2020
Calum Chace (the transhumanist) is a global keynote speaker and best-selling writer about the future impact of AI. His best-known books on AI are Surviving...
13
Apr 2020
Read my new Forbes.com contribution: 2020 Will Bring A New Renaissance – Humanity Over Technology
Perhaps in the industrial age and even in the so-called information society we’ve been pretending to be inhuman all along, to be ‘better machines’ -...
07
Jan 2020
Are the brain implants of the future actually “thinking devices”?
“San Francisco of about two dozen tinkerers, Jonathan Toomim argued it was a logical next step. “We already use devices – our smart phones –...
22
Oct 2019
New video: artificial intelligence and the future of business and humanity. Gerd Leonhard’s Spark 2017 keynote at Capgemini 2017 CXO Forum, Pebble Beach CA
Here is the video of my entire keynote. You can download the slide deck via this link. Download the MP4 mobile version 250MB here. Special...
29
Nov 2017
U.S. panel endorses babies gene-edited with CRISPR – this is huge
“On Tuesday, in a striking acknowledgement that humanity is on the cusp of genetically modified children, a panel of the National Academy of Sciences, the...
15
Feb 2017
Americans love technology, but are not so sure about enhancing their bodies (Pew Study, WaPo)
“a majority of Americans said they would be “very” or “somewhat” worried about three specific biomedical technologies chosen by Pew: gene editing, brain chips and...
27
Jul 2016
Will we see Human-Animal Chimeras soon (must read by MIT Technology Review)
“The effort to incubate organs in farm animals is ethically charged because it involves adding human cells to animal embryos in ways that could blur...
08
Jan 2016
You’re Only Human, But Your Kids Could Be So Much More – says Paul Knoepfler (Wired)
“I mean a designer baby. You would be literally designing and producing a new type of baby via the same sort of technology that is...
