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A Must-Read Future Report: 2019 Technology Trends by Amy Webb
Are you also feeling a bit disoriented when you hear any of the following terms: Ambient tracking, Bounty Programs, Solar Highways, 5D Printing, Digital Frailty,...
How efficient is your love? When AI beats Cupid (Betterhalf.ai in India)
Betterhalf.ai is an Indian company taking dating and relationships to its next level! Ravi Shankar Rajan wrote an interesting post on how AI is redefining...
04
Apr 2019
Ethics as a strategic business asset?
My good friend Bill Wilkie has a new post on ethics. Bill has several academic degrees in Ethics (applied, comparative, philosophical), and recently founded a company...
04
Apr 2019
When Artificial Intelligence Is Everywhere: A dystopian view for 2060 (via The Smithsonian)
As part of the April 2019 preview, The Smithsonian Magazine has an interesting series of future AI scenarios – albeit quite dystopian. The story projects us forward...
02
Apr 2019
Is AI Ethics now a mainstream topic? Five hints from Forbes
Forbes Insights just published five posts summarizing some of the latest developments in AI Ethics. “The growing marketplace for AI ethics” post gives a good...
31
Mar 2019
We have to stop robots from outsmarting humanity
Jaan Tallinn is a founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa. He founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and he is also a...
31
Mar 2019
Universities compete for leadership in Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
It looks like universities around the world are engaged in a fierce competition to claim the pole-position on digital ethics, especially when it comes to...
28
Mar 2019
Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good (must-read via the NYT)
“Anticipated spending on experiences such as leisure travel and dining is outpacing spending on goods, according to his company’s research, and he sees it as...
27
Mar 2019
Preparing For Tomorrow’s Workforce In A World Run By Machines
Gerd's brand new post just went live on Forbes. As smart machines and algorithms begin to excel over and above human capacity, Gerd believes that we...
25
Mar 2019
The dark and shady practices of Silicon Valley
Roger McNamee has been a Silicon Valley investor for 35 years and was one of the early investors in Facebook. He has just published his new...
25
Mar 2019
The future of work is moving towards an availability economy.
Slate has a great post about the future of work – an adapted excerpt from Alex Rosenblat’s latest book Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules...
21
Mar 2019
Coders’ Primal Urge to Kill Inefficiency—Everywhere (Must-read via Wired.com)
In this must-read WIRED story by the fabulous Clive Thompson who is also introducing his new book here we are encountering the coders' tyranny of efficiency. “It’s...
20
Mar 2019
Humanity is on ‘the highway to digital dictatorship’, says Yuval Noah Harari (but it’s not inevitable)
“Well, none of this is inevitable,” he says, suddenly eager to sound a note of optimism. “We can do things on the level of global...
19
Mar 2019
Review: Italian edition of ‘Technology vs Humanity’
Ecco perché la tecnologia cambierà radicalmente le nostre vite Il futurologo Gerd Leonhard: “Siamo in uno snodo cruciale nell’evoluzione tecnologica. Il cambiamento diventerà esponenziale, inevitabile...
18
Mar 2019
New Podcast! Chapter 7: The Digital Obesity Pandemic
Here is our latest podcast based on Chapter 7 of Gerd's best-selling book Technology vs Humanity (Now available in 11 languages!) This week Peter and I covered...
18
Mar 2019
Kevin Kelly asks, is asking a good question the last job a machine will learn to do?
We really loved this great quote by Kevin Kelly in his book, The Inevitable: “A good question is not concerned with a correct answer....
17
Mar 2019
Read Gerd’s latest piece for Forbes
Originally published on February 28, 2019, via Forbes.com In 2016, I published my new best-selling book called Technology Vs. Humanity. The title alone sparked alarmed discussions....
16
Mar 2019
This Is How AI Is Redefining Love: a rather scary read via Medium
This Is How AI Is Redefining Love was a great think piece from Medium this week: “By 2020, DNA dating and VR dating will remove...
