The Metaverse: Good or Evil? Introducing a brand-new and exciting speaker package with Futurists Calum Chace and Gerd Leonhard

I really like Calum Chace’s work on AI and the future of technology (and of course, his books) but I don’t agree on most of his conclusions on how we are going to build what I call The Good Future.

One of our most contentious topics is the Metaverse (or rather, what I call the MetaPERverse): Calum thinks is going to be a big deal, and beneficial to humanity, and I think it’s mostly Zuck’s final fantasy, Silicon-Valley hype at its best, and potentially 100x worse than social media (which has turned into a menace, by and large).

Yet Calum and me are good friends, regardless of our opinions, and we have done a lot of speaking work together (have a look at our transhumanist debate here and our EPFL gig here). So now you can book the 2 of us, together, to deliver an unforgettable Metaverse debate, virtually as well as on-location!

Just submit a request and we shall reply swiftly, or ping us via office@thefuturesagency.com

You can watch our previous Metaverse-related talks below (or all of mine, here).

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