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My studio tools and some tech tips for video recording and live-streaming
Many people have asked how I produce my online keynote videos and my live-streams, and what kind of gear I use. But first, I have...
10
Mar 2023
Press-release: Announcing TheConference.Digital – Working, meeting, collaborating and conferencing online is the Future.
Announcing TheConference.Digital: new concepts for digital events and online conferencing, presented by Gerd Leonhard and The Futures Agency
18
Mar 2020
Some morsels from my recent keynotes: humarithms, machine thinking, practical wisdom and more
Here are some of the most popular memes and concepts that I have presented during some of my recent keynotes. Please comment and share this post if you like...
25
Oct 2015
The Servitude Bubble – some good comments on the ‘sharing economy’ (Umair Haque)
Read Umair's piece here – some pretty hard-hitting observations here! A chat app bought for one fifth of the US educational budget. An Uber for dog-walkers....
01
Jul 2015
Must read: the coming problem of our iPhones being more intelligent than us
The Coming Problem of Our iPhones Being More Intelligent Than Us https://singularityhub.com/2015/04/24/the-coming-problem-of-our-iphones-being-more-intelligent-than-us/ (via Instapaper) by Vivek Wadhwa Kurzweil, a renowned futurist and the director of...
27
Apr 2015
A Sucker Is Optimized Every Minute – why total optimisation is not…optimal (good read via NYT)
The gut is dead. Long live the data, turned out day and night by our myriad computers and smart devices. Not that we trust the...
18
Mar 2015
Your Lawyer May Soon Be an Algorithm … (but what is… soon?)
“AI making legal decisions is a compelling idea. Not only is it more efficient, but couldn’t it somehow be more just to place decisions in...
08
Mar 2015
Beware the rise of the digital oligarchy (good read via the Guardian)
“Our personal data reflects our interests, our desires: it is a digital extension of our soul. By giving it away so freely to social networks,...
07
Mar 2015
The Future of In-Flight Entertainment: Virtual Reality? (interesting trend)
“Such virtual reality headgear are staples of science fiction movies. In “Demolition Man,” Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock use them to have virtual sex (it...
17
Sep 2014
HBO Go without needing cable? Welcome to the future of television (good insights via the Guardian)
From channels to platforms…! Broadcasting converges with Boadbanding:) see my illustrations below. I do think that, outside of the US, it's more about cable-nevers than...
14
Sep 2014
Did You Know You Had Diabetes? It’s All Over the Internet (interesting read via Bloomberg)
This is a good read on a topic I have been looking at very closely – which personal information can be used online for what...
12
Sep 2014
Interesting NYT piece on the Sharing Economy: Workers Find Both Freedom and Uncertainty?
A really interesting post presenting some of the key issues behind the rise of ‘sharing economy' leaders such as Uber, Lyft, TaskRabbit and AirBnB. Some...
24
Aug 2014
The 2 best Concepts From Malcolm Gladwell’s Bestsellers (adapted from BusinessInsider)
Via BusinessInsider: Malcolm Gladwell’s first two bestsellers, The Tipping Point and Blink, earned him a place onTime’s 2005 “Most Influential People” list; and with Outliers, the “10,000 Hour” theory made its...
23
Aug 2014
Why Higher Education Cannot Resist Disruptive Change (something interesting I just read)
“This brings us to the future of higher education. Its situation is much the same as that of the news media. Content, often of high...
17
Aug 2014
Digital Darwinism: Transforming a Business in The Selfie Era (nice piece by Brian Solis, great free report)
Brian Solis: To help understand what digital transformation is as well as its promise, I spent the last year along with my colleagues at Altimeter...
12
Aug 2014
Knowledge Doubling Every 12 Months, Soon to be Every 12 Hours (some pretty amazing stats via IndustryTap)
Some pretty amazing stats here (even though this is from 2013:) Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge...
16
Jul 2014
What’s a futurist and how can I get a job like that? (nice piece via the Sydney Morning Herald)
Personally, I would offer the explanation that most of my work is about this old Poincare quote: “Logic proves Intuition discovers”… But here are my fav...
