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▶ Amazon’s Echo digital assistant: will ‘outsourcing our brains’ become the new normal?
▶ Introducing Amazon Echo – YouTube. Is this a good thing… and what is next? And… will this device just LISTEN ALL THE TIME? https://youtu.be/KkOCeAtKHIc...
Interesting Chart: NSA Monitoring Practices Face Stiff Opposition | Statista
• Chart: NSA Monitoring Practices Face Stiff Opposition | Statista. This is an interesting chart provided by Statista – 3x as many people think this is...
17
Jul 2014
▶ Inventing the Future of Connectivity (Facebook video on connecting developing countries – with drones)
Facebook's Yael Maguire talks about the technologies we're working on that will make connectivity more affordable in communities around the world. via ▶ Inventing the...
28
Mar 2014
Impressive and somewhat scary Cisco TV Commercial on ‘The Internet of Everything Circle Story’
https://youtu.be/Z3PNMdL7P1M via Cisco TV Commercial, ‘The Internet of Everything Circle Story' – YouTube. Very interesting video showing both the tremendous possibilities of the Internet of...
25
Mar 2014
How the “internet of things” will replace the web – good read via Quartz
From December 2013 but still very much on-the-spot. How the “internet of things” will replace the web – Quartz. If this all sounds like mind...
22
Mar 2014
Tim Berners-Lee suggests digital magma carta (and once again fuels my own thinking;)
I just ran across this really important contribution by Tim Berners-Lee today. I penned a very much related piece for TheGuardian blog in October last year:...
12
Mar 2014
Has Privacy Become a Luxury Good? Via nytimes.com» by Julia Angwin
Great piece and must-read! In our data-saturated economy, privacy is becoming a luxury good. After all, as the saying goes, if you aren’t paying for...
11
Mar 2014
Must-watch video: Stephen Colbert Rips NSA, Mt. Gox, Snowden in RSA Speech (Video) | Re/code
Hilarious – must watch. Colbert is great (at least in this case:) “I looked at the signatures on the online petition, then I looked at...
02
Mar 2014
Big data, big business, big brother (my new guest post on CNN.com)
Read this piece on CNN.com Download PDF: Big data, big business, Big Brother? – CNN.com Spanish version (via CNN) ” (CNN) — Let me start on a...
27
Feb 2014
▶ Google Keep video via YouTube: a cool tool – but make Google the central depository of my life…? DataMYning is near, imho
via ▶ Google Keep – YouTube. This could indeed be very helpful – but OUTSOURCING MY BRAIN TO GOOGLE? Is that really a good idea?...
12
Jan 2014
Social – Local – Mobile (SoLoMo): empowerment or enslavement?
Nice infographic via mashable The tug of war between between empowered and being enslaved, between convenience and surveillance, between algorithms and humarithms will be a...
23
Dec 2013
▶ Why Care About the NSA? – Brian Knappenberger Video (NYT)
▶ Why Care About the NSA? – Brian Knappenberger Op-Doc – YouTube. Nice video, really made me think ... Read more
10
Dec 2013
My guest post on CNN International: Siri says ‘dump him’? How mobile devices could run (or ruin) your life (Spanish version, as well)
CNN International just published a guest post by me, here, on how the key technology trends will impact us in the next 5 years. The...
09
Dec 2013
How the NSA is tracking people right now, via The Washington Post (unbelievable, really)
How the NSA is tracking people right now – The Washington Post. Check this out. Information Superiority is everything I guess. ... Read more
05
Dec 2013
▶ Highlights of my ‘Future of the Internet’ keynote at ITU Telecom World 2013 in Bangkok
▶ Highlights of Gerd Leonhard's futurist keynote ITU Telecom World 2013 – YouTube. Download the slides here ... Read more
28
Nov 2013
The slides of my presentation on the future of Content and Marketing (Headoffice NL event October 17 2013)
Here are the slides from Headoffice's Netherlands Content Marketing Event near Amsterdam, today. Great location and really great audience; I always enjoy speaking in the...
17
Oct 2013
New Video: Meeting of the minds (MOTM) #5: the key future trends (Ross Dawson / Gerd Leonhard)
This is Meeting of the Minds episode #5 featuring my fellow futurist Ross Dawson and me discussing the key trends for the next 5 years:...
15
Oct 2013
Video and slides of my presentation at Pathways Barcelona 2013: the future of technology – looking backwards (updated)
Update October 14th: the video with my entire keynote speech just went live, check it out, below. Download the slides: Dropbox 8MB PDF Owncloud 8MB...
