August 6th, 2017 by
Category: Technology and Humanity

It’s always great to speak in Finland, and being at the SHIFT 2017 event was a great pleasure, as well. Below is my deck from my talk; we will have a video available soon, as well. Btw: if you sign up for shift 2017 right now you can win a free copy of my book:)

We should embrace technology, but not to become it. Digital advances will allow us to focus more on the one thing that matters, that can not be automated: humanity.

Technology and Humanity Opportunities Challenges SHIFT Festival Turku 2017 Gerd Leonhard Shared 18 MB PDF

Some pics from the Twitter stream

Update August 6 2017: here is the video

 

 

And some best-of memes

 

 

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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.

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