June 2nd, 2020 by
Category: Technology and Humanity

Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard’s latest virtual keynote on Technology and Humanity

at PODIM 2020 (using Zoom virtual backgrounds)

… and the Future of Europe, at PODIM 2020.  Thanks to PODIM for inviting me and for making this video available.  I am using some new virtual backgrounds in this talk (using Zoom). Some of my key messages:

  • Embrace technology but don’t become it.
  • Technology is not what we seek but how we seek.
  • Everything should be as smart as possible – but not more
  • You cannot download happiness, and trust isn’t digital
  • The more we connect the more we must protect what makes us human
  • We need to transcend technology – not humanity

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Bonus Video:

Gerd Leonhard on #techvshuman: excerpt from PODIM 2020 Panel on the Future of Europe

Audio-only version (podcast version)



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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