The key question is no longer IF or HOW technology can do something but WHY it should, and WHO controls it.

Some of my most crucial messages are summarized in this short, hard-hitting presentation I gave yesterday at the Open Innovation Forum in Moscow on Oct 21, 2020 (virtually of course). Thanks to https://openinnovations.ru/en/ for inviting me. The future is people planet purpose and prosperity. Or none. We are NOT going back to Normal, post-covid. We are at a Fork in the Road, heading towards a total reset. The great transformation has begun. The future is a mindset. Not a time-frame. The future with/post-covid: Big Tech. Big Media. Big Health. Big State. Big Green.

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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. View all posts by Gerd Leonhard