My slides from CONNECTGOV in THIMPHU, BHUTAN: technology for humanity

is now live on my FuturistGerd blog

Technology for Humanity: Managing a Disruptive World Disruption can displace existing market, industry or technology. It can also produce something new, challenging and even innovative. It is all at once destructive and creative at the same time…

Author: Gerd Leonhard

In the words of American poet John Berryman, “the possibility that has been overlooked is the future”. Most of us are far too busy coping with present challenges to explore the future in any depth – and when we do our own cravings and fears often run away with us, resulting in utopias or dystopias that are not very helpful in terms of planning and decisions. Today’s professionals, leaders and their organisations need a dedicated, passionate long-term understanding of the future if they are to successfully navigate the exponential waves of change. For countless individuals and organizations that intelligence is called Gerd Leonhard. View all posts by Gerd Leonhard