Category: Technology and Humanity
Futurist Gerd Leonhard featured on the ‘Age of Aquarius’ Podcast
Futurist Gerd Leonhard joined Jacy Nova to discuss what are some of the biggest challenges humanity is facing today.
The Future of Social Media: Gerd Leonhard’s recent live-streaming show GerdTalks#3
“Technology is morally neutral until we use it”, you probably heard me say this countless times (quoting William Gibson). In this event, below, that was live-streamed on Youtube, LinkedIn, Twitch and many other platforms on Feb 21, 2022, I discussed the future of Social Media – more specifically Facebook / Meta. You can watch this […]
Join Gerd Leonhard for Gerdtalks #3: Why Facebook / Meta must be dismantled, how to reboot social media: Feb 21!
Futurist Gerd Leonhard has kicked off this year with a special new show called GerdTalks, a bi-weekly series of free LIVE events broadcasted via his YouTube channel, LinkedIn, Twitch and many other platforms (not on Facebook :). Updated URLs will be shared the day before the event – Please sign up here (Eventbrite) for the next one […]
The Future of Education: Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s video for EduCanada
I was delighted to be invited by the Embassy of Canada in Switzerland to create this presentation discussing the Future of Education and why Canada is leading the way. Here are some snippets of some key points I spoke about, on this topic.
Announcing ‘GerdTalks’, my new live-streaming show on Youtube!
I am kicking off this year with a special new show called GerdTalks, a bi-weekly series of free LIVE events broadcasted via my YouTube channel (and probably on LinkedIn, soon, as well). Each show features 15 minutes of fast-paced presenting on current yet future-relevant topics (such as this thing called the Metaverse), after which my […]
What will 2022 bring? Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s foresights quoted in the media
Every year I get some requests to chime in on what we should expect in the coming year. Here are some of my recent interviews featured in the media, about 2022...
What will 2022 bring? Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s foresights in the media
Every year I get some requests to chime in on what we should expect in the coming year. Here are some of my recent interviews featured in the media, about 2022...
Futurist Gerd Leonhard releases new film: ‘The Good Future EXPLAINED’
Since "The Good Future" film's release, I have received many comments requesting to dive deeper into each topic, and to provide more context. Hence this new film: The Good Future EXPLAINED
‘The Good Future EXPLAINED’: Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s new must-see video on why the future is better than we think
Since "The Good Future" film's release, I have received many comments requesting to dive deeper into each topic, and to provide more context. Hence this new film: The Good Future EXPLAINED
Futurist Gerd Leonhard collabores with CIANDT on ‘Break’ series: short content experiences to make you think.
Futurist Gerd Leonhard, was one of the futurist speakers featured, talking about digital humanism and how to create a good future.
We need to dial down the fear: Must-read interview with Gerd Leonhard on Digital Ethics (Swisscom Magazine)
The future will be better than we think, claims futurist Gerd Leonhard. Ultimately, managing digital transformation is in people’s own hands – however, everyone needs to be clear about what they want to relinquish to technology and what should remain under their own control. An encounter with a man who sees himself as more a future therapist than a prophet.
The Great Reduction: Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s take on virtual reality, sims and the Metaverse
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 we can live in a perfectly orchestrated and comfortable virtual reality?
Gerd Leonhard’s Talk at Fortune’s CEO Initiative Greece: “Business as Usual is Dead”
In this workshop I outline what the next 10 years may bring, and what the opportunities for Greece might be. I present my scenarios for a with/post-covid world, and explore how Greece could seize the opportunities that are arising.
Facebook: The Largest Autocracy on Earth (‘The Atlantic). Gerd’s high-lights
"Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way." Adrienne LaFrance / Via 'The Atlantic' (my high-lights)
Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s Keynote at IAAMobility 2021: Digitisation, Decarbonization and Reformation
This was my first large REAL-LIFE (i.e. not virtual) event since late February 2020 (when the Covid19 crisis started)
“It’s hard to be a moral person. Technology is making it harder.” Sigal Samuel on technology use (my high-lights)
"Many a bystander has witnessed a car accident or a fist-fight and taken out their phone to film the drama rather than rushing over to see if the victim needs help."
Gerd Leonhard’s Viral New Film ‘The Good Future’. Here are some of the highlights.
The future is not something that just happens to us - it is something we create every single day, by action or by inaction. Whether the future is good or bad is entirely up to us. As we see the future, so we act, as we act so we become!
Watch or download my new film “The Good Future” via my Vimeo channel!
Just go to my new Vimeo showcase.
My new film “The Good Future”
I am here to tell the story of The Good Future. I believe in a future where the power of human ingenuity, science and technology solves our biggest problems. I also believe that humans are basically kind and capable of collaboration (read 'human kind' by Rutger Bregman! )