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
Open letter to AirBnB: Do the right thing: extenuating circumstances are the New Normal!
Open letter to AirBnB: Do the right thing: extenuating circumstances are the New Normal!
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Apr 2020
Living in a Ghost Town – The Rolling Stones’ new song. Love it!
I've been a Rolling Stones fan forever – and this ...
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Apr 2020
Winners and losers in the world after corona: the age of big government?
overnments will strong-arm or nationalize companies, pay salaries, compensate businesses and do it by printing money and piling up debt. No one expects the invisible hand to fix this problem, so we are in for an age of big government. If it sweeps aside foolish opposition in the United States to wiser taxation, gun control and especially universal health care, then coronavirus will have done some good.”
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Apr 2020
COVID-19 has created a wartime atmosphere in which dramatic system changes suddenly seem possible (must-read via ForeignPolicy.com)
This much is certain: The pandemic will lead to permanent shifts in political and economic power in ways that will become apparent only later.
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Apr 2020
Video, audio, slides and polls from our digital conference on leadership during crisis, April 16 2020
We are in a deep and utterly challenging crisis. I have started calling this ‘The Great Transformation‘. Basically, there is a time before Covid19, and there’s a time after Covid19. Leadership is even more mission-critical now – both personally and professionally
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Apr 2020
UN Secretary General: there is an effective dysfunctionality – either we are together or we can be defeated
Must watch. UN Secretary General António Guterres: "There is an effective dysfunctionality"
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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 AI and The Economic Singularity. More at http://www.pandoras-brain.com/ Gerd Leonhard (the humanist) is a top-rated Futurist, the Author of Technology vs Humanity, the CEO of The Futures Agency and a Global Keynote Speaker see http://gerdtube.com
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Apr 2020
Winners and losers in new world order #postcoronafuture (via the Guardian)
“In Hong Kong, graffiti reads: “There can be no return to normal because normal was the problem in the first place.
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Apr 2020
Leadership during crisis: a free digital conference with Didier Marlier, Celine Schillinger and Gerd Leonhard, April 16 2020
Leadership during crisis: free digital conference with Celine Schillinger, Didier Marlier and Gerd Leonhard (TheFuturesAgency)
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Apr 2020
12 bullets by Futurist Gerd Leonhard: essential With/Post Corona Foresights (updated 10/20/20)
In March 2013, when the Covid-19 crisis became the dominant ...
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Apr 2020
New film: The Great Transformation: Futurist Gerd Leonhard on how #covid19 will impact our immediate future
New film: The Great Transformation: Futurist Gerd Leonhard on how #covid19 will impact our immediate future
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Apr 2020
Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Must-read analysis via Politico
“The extraordinary shock(s) to our system that the coronavirus pandemic ...
02
Apr 2020
Sinking ships: post-corona, taking a cruise will be a stretch (via TheEconomist)
WHEN THE ZAANDAM, a cruise ship operated by Holland America Line, left Buenos Aires on March 7th, its passengers were promised 31 nights of “elegant and comfortable” luxury. They are now approaching Florida, and their holiday has been anything but elegant, comfortable or luxurious
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Apr 2020
Join us April 9, 5pm Sydney: The Future of Work – the Great Transformation. Free online conference with Futurists Ross Dawson, Shara Evans, Gerd Leonhard
Free online conference with Futurists Ross Dawson, Shara Evans, Gerd Leonhard