“Silicon Valley’s biggest failing is not poor marketing of its products, or follow-through on promises, but, rather, the distinct lack of empathy for those whose...
La muerte es opcional | Edge.org. Fascinante conversación con YUVAL NOAH HARARI y Daniel Kahnemann
“Once you really solve a problem like direct brain-computer interface ... when brains and computers can interact directly, that's it, that's the end of history,...
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Nov 2016
Un mensaje clave de mi película "Cambio exponencial": ¡todo lo que no puede digitalizarse o automatizarse se vuelve extremadamente valioso!
… and that means HUMAN-ONLY skills and idiosyncrasies Watch the entire film below (4 mins). Download the film (300MB MP4) (OK to reuse under...
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Nov 2016
Actualización: vídeo completo y presentación: Gerd Leonhard en la Conferencia Smart Port Rotterdam: el futuro en pocas palabras.
… as promised here are the slides ! More details about this event. 10-year-future-smartport-rotterdam-gerd-leonhard-futurist-public-low-res 20 MB PDF SmartPort will be hosting its first SmartPort Summit...
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Nov 2016
Ver cómo se pudre el mundo en la mayor conferencia tecnológica de Europa / ¡lectura obligada!
“You can go further. In the accounts given by philosophers like Bernard Stiegler, the human stands on the point of vanishing entirely; we become something...
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Nov 2016
Cuando murió su mejor amigo, utilizó la inteligencia artificial para seguir hablando con él - gran historia sobre bots conmemorativos
“Memorial bots — even the primitive ones that are possible using today’s technology — seemed both inevitable and dangerous. “It’s definitely the future — I’m...
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Nov 2016
Mis comentarios sobre "Lo que Black Mirror, Her y el género del futuro cercano nos dicen sobre el mañana" (TheGuardian)
I was recently interviewed by Noah Berlatsky and his piece just went online at TheGuardian “Taking after George Orwell and JG Ballard, some of the most...
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Nov 2016
El futuro de la alimentación - La alimentación del futuro: ¡algo fascinante!
“The Cultured Beef Project aims to create artificial meat in the laboratory. Technicians remove muscle cells from the shoulder of a cow, and feed the...
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Nov 2016
La ética de la inteligencia artificial (Tim O'Reilly)
“Ethics is about having an intelligent discussion, not about answers, as such—it's about having the tools to think carefully about real-world actions and their effects,...
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Nov 2016
Un preocupante estudio afirma que la inteligencia artificial puede predecir quiénes serán delincuentes basándose en sus rasgos faciales
“Kate Crawford, an AI researcher with Microsoft Research New York, MIT, and NYU, told The Intercept, “I‘d call this paper literal phrenology, it’s just using...
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Nov 2016
Google, Facebook y la búsqueda de la verdad - The Futures Agency y Tim Cole
“But the really worrying thing is that the Internet, which most of us heralded as a way to bring truth to the masses, is in...
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Nov 2016
¿Obesidad digital o anorexia analógica? Bienvenidos al futuro (extracto ampliado de "Tecnología contra humanidad")
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
El futuro de la economía digital (CSEM 2016): Slide-deck y audio de mi keynote.
Here is my deck from today's talk at CSEM 2016 in Zürich the-future-of-the-digital-economy-csem-zrh-2016-gerd-leonhard-public 34 MB PDF Audio track below — sorry for the low volume...
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Nov 2016
Incluso el robot BAXTER disfruta leyendo mi nuevo libro "Tecnología vs Humanidad" (y un dron lo está entregando)
Images by Matt McLelland – Thanks ! Buy the book via Amazon or directly via my publisher. Read more about the book here. Read the...
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Nov 2016
Nuevo podcast: una conversación con los futuristas Richard Watson y Gerd Leonhard sobre nuestros nuevos libros: Digital vs Human, y Technology vs Humanity
Here is a brand-new podcast with my futurist colleague Richard Watson who just published a great book called ‘Digital vs Human‘. Richard's book is a...
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Nov 2016
Silicon Valley se tambalea tras la elección de Trump - NYTimes.com
“Mr. Obama, who rode many of these digital tools to the presidency, was accommodative of their rise; his administration broadly deferred to the tech industry...
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Nov 2016
Vídeo y diapositivas: Congreso de Protección de Datos de la IAPP en Bruselas, hoy: Tecnología y Humanidad (actualizado)
Great event here in Brussels today, see more details here. NEW: here is the video of my keynote My new book TECHNOLOGY VS HUMANITY, as...
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Nov 2016
Las elecciones de 2016 dejan al descubierto el lado muy, muy oscuro de la tecnología
“It’s shown us—and not for the first time—how the same communication tools that can connect strangers in far-flung parts of the world can also be...