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Is Social Media Ruining Political Discourse (must-read via The Atlantic)
GREAT READ, provocative stuff – thanks Jay-David. “YouTube is designed ...
Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant are changing how we interact with the world by doing it for us (via TheNextWeb, on VUIs)
“A survey of more than 1,500 online shoppers revealed that ...
14
Apr 2019
This Is How AI Is Redefining Love: a rather scary read via Medium
This Is How AI Is Redefining Love was a great ...
15
Mar 2019
This is Silicon Valley (must-read by Gloria Liou)
Medium writer Gloria Liou is born-and-bred Silicon Valley. She describes ...
03
Mar 2019
Uber and the Ongoing Erasure of Public Life (good read via The New Yorker)
“Cities struggling to keep subways and buses running are being ...
26
Feb 2019
A call for “Soft Ethics” by Professor Luciano Floridi
In this video, Oxford Digital Ethics Lab Professor Luciano Floridi asks ...
15
Feb 2019
The new elite’s phoney crusade to save the world – without changing anything
“That vast numbers of Americans and others in the west have scarcely benefited from the age is not because of a lack of innovation, but because of social arrangements that fail to turn new stuff into better lives. For example, American scientist...
04
Feb 2019
GSMA sharpens focus on ethical digitalisation with the launch of ‘Digital Declaration’
Hear hear ! Better late than never :)) “Social, technological, political and economic currents are combining to create a perfect storm of disruption across all industries,” said Mats Granryd, director general of the GSMA.“A new form of re...
27
Jan 2019
The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution
“As always, progress has not been without a price. Like the factories of 200 years ago, digital advances have given rise to a pollution that is reducing the quality of our lives and the strength of our democracy. We manage what we choose to meas...
21
Jan 2019
Don’t believe the hype: the media are unwittingly selling us an AI fantasy | John Naughton
“The tech giants that own and control the technology have plans to exponentially increase that impact and to that end have crafted a distinctive narrative. Crudely summarised, it goes like this: “While there may be odd glitches and the occasiona...
15
Jan 2019
Beware corporate ‘machinewashing’ of AI
“To compound the problem, the baleful effects of AI are often rooted in the very algorithms that drive many tech companies’ profit streams. Economists call such societal costs “negative externalities.” A key component of a negative externality i...
09
Jan 2019
Video and PDF with my slides from FuturePort 2018 in Prague: The Future is better than we think…. IF… (updated)
Here it is! More details on the event here Technology ...
06
Sep 2018
NEW: Handelszeitung.ch Interview: Der Futurist Gerd Leonhard über die Angst vor der Digitalisierung, warum die Schweiz mehr Biss braucht und den faustischen Pakt mit Silicon Valley
Auf Deutsch | In GERMAN language. Mehr hier lesen. Von ...
13
Mar 2018
Here is my slide-deck from RethinkFood 2017, keynote at the Culinary Institute in Napa: technology, humanity and the future of food
…that was a great event! You can watch the webcast ...
02
Nov 2017
Five new human rights for the Digital Age (excerpt from Gerd Leonhard’s book Technology vs Humanity)
This is a slightly modified and hyper-linked excerpt from my ...
25
Mar 2017
Join us for The Great Debate on Technology and Humanity during MWC Barcelona February 28 2017
I am very excited to announce that me and my ...
20
Jan 2017
Digital Obesity or Analogue Anorexia? Welcome to the Future (expanded excerpt from “Technology vs Humanity”)
No escape from the data tsunami? Note: this post has ...
