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Join me June 12, 2025 at 6pm CET for my next GerdTalks live stream on Digital Labor
Join me next JUNE 12 (NEW DATE!!) at 6pm CET / 12 noon EST / 9am PST 830pm India etc for my next #gerdtalk livestream...
Announcing 2 free Livestream events on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) 18 / 19 July 2024 (and explainer video)
In these special livestream events, I will present my arguments that while IA (Intelligent Assistance), and some forms of narrow AI could be beneficial to...
02
Jul 2024
Do we need to act to preempt a Generative AI Monopoly? (must read via Diane Coyle, PS)
read more via Project Syndicate “ChatGPT, the new artificial intelligence chatbot developed by the San Francisco-based research laboratory OpenAI, has taken the world by storm....
06
Feb 2023
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 special new show called GerdTalks, a bi-weekly series of free LIVE events broadcasted via his YouTube channel,...
14
Feb 2022
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...
28
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)
07
Oct 2021
Technology is exponential but humans are not: Why Digital Ethics is an increasingly crucial topic (and some new keynotes)
“Technology can do great things, but it does not WANT to do great things – it does not want anything” says Apple's CEO Tim Cook...
11
Jun 2021
Europe takes the lead on AI regulation – this is a big deal!
‘The European Union wants to become the world's super-regulator in AI”, The Economist tells us. This is one of many headlines proliferating everywhere these days....
24
Apr 2021
Here is different kind of Gerd-Video: a close-up and personal conversation about #TheGoodFuture
... Read more
26
Mar 2021
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...
06
Mar 2021
Announcing a new speaking topic: A FUTURIST’S CASE FOR TECH REGULATION
The adage “too much of a good thing can be a very bad thing” is true for most things that might cause us harm but...
25
Aug 2020
Big Tech’s Domination of Business Reaches New Heights (via the NYT)
“As the economy contracts and many companies struggle to survive, the biggest tech companies are amassing wealth and influence in ways unseen in decades” Read...
22
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
30
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...
28
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
02
Apr 2020
This Is Silicon Valley’s Chance to Step Up for Humanity (Tristan Harris)
With the world on lockdown, tech platforms are now the social fabric. How they act in the next few days will decide their legacy, and...
29
Mar 2020
In 2020, will global ‘techlash’ move from words to action? Good read via Politico
“Officials across the EU and North America are finally realizing that just as tech companies are breaking down barriers between various industries, so too must...
