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Selling hamburgers with AI? McDonalds loves it
McDonald's acquisition of machine learning startup Dynamic Yield has been widely reported. Below are some extracts from Engadget, BBC News, and WIRED. The purchase for...
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
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
From efficiency to human agency: Azeem Azhar and Gerd Leonhard on AI
Azeem Azhar and Gerd Leonhard had a good chat last week. It was a wide-ranging conversation on AI and its potential dangers to humanity – so I...
13
Mar 2019
Why Telefonica’s New Digital Deal is big news
Guest post by The Futures Agency content curator Petervan In 2018, Spain's biggest telco Telefonica released its “New Digital Deal“, a manifesto towards a human-centric...
03
Mar 2019
Is a kind of ‘awesome abdication’ our future? Google gets ready to ‘do it’ all for us. #hellven
Guest post by The Futures Agency content curator Petervan Remember when the world's most famous brand catchcry was ‘Just Do It' from Nike? Those days...
21
Feb 2019
IBM’s open letter to the tech industry (yes, it’s a mixed bag)
Guest post by The Futures Agency content curator Petervan “Dear Tech…” is the opening sentence of a new IBM commercial, a video that pens an...
21
Feb 2019
Are we living in a Mirrorworld? (asks Kevin Kelly, with reference to Magic Leap)
Kevin Kelly has an interesting new post about AR (Augmented Reality) and how that may become the next big tech platform. He calls it the “Mirrorworld”,...
19
Feb 2019
Leading into the Future: a compilation with slides on #transformation and #techvshuman
Here is a brand-new compilation of my key themes from the past 3 months: technology vs humanity, exponential change, digital ethics, leadership and .. how...
18
Feb 2019
New podcast: a conversation about Chapter 1 of Gerd Leonhard’s book Technology vs Humanity: a prologue to the Future
This is #1 of a new weekly podcast featuring every chapter in my book Technology vs Humanity. In the first chapter titled “A Prologue to...
24
Jan 2019
Video compilation: the best moments from Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s 2018 keynotes – must watch!
2018 was an amazing year, with some really great gigs – over 100x in 30 countries. Now, my producer and art director Jean Francois...
08
Dec 2018
Futurist Keynote Speaker Gerd Leonhard on-stage: short videos with best quotes on humanity and technology (#4 and 5)
These 2 short videos just went live, featuring some nice nuggets from a recent talk. On the shift toward creative jobs, EQ over IQ #4...
20
Nov 2018
Futurebuilders Podcast with Gerd Leonhard (video version): machines and humans, work and the future
Audio version here Listen to or download MP3: In the second episode Futurebuilders podcast together with Gerd Leonhard: – Is it necessary that everyone will...
17
Nov 2018
New video: Exponential transformation? Why the future is better than we think – and why humans will still matter (Acquia Engage London 2018)
Brand-new talk from Acquia Engage London 2018! Thanks to Acquia for making this video available, and for inviting me to speak at their amazing event....
03
Nov 2018
Free PDF and AUDIO FILES: the entire 3rd Chapter of Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s book Technology vs. Humanity “The Megashifts” in 10 languages
Technological shifts are rewiring society and transforming the landscape. I believe the coming clash between man and machine will be intensified and exponentalized through the...
27
Oct 2018
Here is the deck with my slides from today: EnlightED in Madrid: technology, humanity, and the future for education
This was (is) a pretty amazing event!! Huge congrats to Telefonica Foundation and IE and everyone else! Check out the twitter stream EnlightED...
04
Oct 2018
Technology, Humanity, AI… and The Future of Politics (Die Welt essay by Tim Renner and Gerd Leonhard, translated from German)
Read the original version at Die Welt (paywall), or via the brand-new Renner/Leonhard site Thanks to Tim Cole for helping with this translation. Stand up,...
22
Aug 2018
Some new memes and bottom lines: technology vs humanity
My amazing design and graphics team has just cooked up another batch of ‘quote cards' with some cool new nuggets derived from some recent keynotes....
