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The Metaverse: Good or Evil? Introducing a brand-new and exciting speaker package with Futurists Calum Chace and Gerd Leonhard
calum chace and gerd leonhard debate the metaverse
New Realities: Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality – and the Metaverse: Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s Newest Keynote Topic
I have been very busy creating a new talk on the future of AR, VR and the Metaverse (btw: you can read my latest best-finds...
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May 2022
Join me for GerdTalks#9 May 26 6pm CET. New Realities: AR, MR, VR and the Metaverse.
In this episode of GerdTalks, I will address both the positive i.e. the possibly 'heavenly' aspects of this development as well as the negative i.e....
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May 2022
Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s take on the Metaverse / Metaperverse (new video): Heaven or Hell?
and experiences with AI-powered technological simulations become the biggest business opportunity ever? Will we stop bothering with a complicated, confusing and often exhausting reality when...
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Nov 2021
The Metaverse…worse than Social Media? Gerd’s comments on a great Big Think piece by Louis Rosenberg
In a recent article on Big Think Louis Rosenberg (the augmented reality inventor) warns it could be far worse than social media”. I couldn't agree...
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Nov 2021
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
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Mar 2020
The 15 “We shall not” statements from my latest book, Technology vs Humanity – and what has happened since I published it
The 15 Shall Not's, below, are excerpted from chapter 10 of my 2016 book Technology vs. Humanity which is, thankfully, becoming increasingly popular around the...
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May 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...
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Mar 2019
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...
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Oct 2018
New short-video series: Futurist Gerd Leonhard on-stage: best quotes and key messages
My art director Jf Cardella and his team are cooking up some really nice, short video examples culled from some recent keynotes, highlighting the key...
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Aug 2018
My latest contribution to The Next Web: connecting your brain to the Internet sounds great – but is it a good idea?
SOURCE “Brain implants or other types of neural links, such as Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) between the brain, the internet, and the cloud, are...
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Mar 2018
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 been excerpted, expanded and adapted from my new book “Technology vs Humanity” (read more here,...
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Nov 2016
▶ ‘ELDERS’ REACT TO OCULUS RIFT – YouTube (must watch, hilarious)
via Martin Geddes ... Read more
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May 2015
New video: my opening keynote presentation at the ITU Telecom World Leadership Summit for the Future in Doha, Dec 7, 2014
Take a look at all related ITU Future Summit resources and links here Download the slides: ITU Future Summit Gerd Leonhard Opening Presentation-web ... Read more
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Feb 2015
Sonae FINCO’14 – Flash Interview with Gerd Leonhard on Digital Obesity and what makes us human
In this short video short at SONAE's Finco event in Lisbon (see more here, including my slides) I comment on topics such as the future of...
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Oct 2014
Interesting initiative: Marriott Hotels Virtual Travel Experience (video)
Marriott Hotels created a virtual travel experience including live-action video, a mix of CGI and 4-D elements to deliver an unprecedented feeling of actually being...
