Announcing My New 2021 Speaking Topics: Beyond Corona, The Good Future, Awesome Humans

Announcing My New 2021 Speaking Topics: Beyond Corona, The Good Future, Awesome Humans

Without a doubt, 2020 will go down as one of the most disruptive, transformational and challenging years of recent history. Between the global pandemic shock, the corona-coasters, the chaos caused to the world's economies, the inspiring acts of solidarity, the rapid acceleration of pre-covid nascent technological trends, and the development of vaccines in a record […]

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Must-read: ARK Investments Big Ideas Report 2021, my highlights and comments on AI, DL,VR, Battery Tech etc

Must-read: ARK Investments Big Ideas Report 2021, my highlights and comments on AI, DL,VR, Battery Tech etc

ARK seeks to gain a deeper understanding of the convergence, market potential, and long-term impact of disruptive innovation by researching a global universe that spans sectors, industries, and markets. Today, we are witnessing an acceleration in new technological breakthroughs

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Brand-new 2021 speaking topic: Sustainable is the new Profitable. Green is the new Digital.

Brand-new 2021 speaking topic: Sustainable is the new Profitable. Green is the new Digital.

SUSTAINABLE IS THE NEW PROFITABLE. GREEN IS THE NEW DIGITAL. Why and how the decarbonisation of our economy is the biggest opportunity in this coming decade ‘Digital transformation’ is just business-as usual-by now. The next really big topic has been on the agenda for decades but apparently had to first be kick-started by the Corona Crisis: The Decarbonisation of […]

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Technology is exponential – but humans are LINEAR: Keck’s Law, Moore’s Law…Gerd’s law?

Technology is exponential – but humans are LINEAR: Keck’s Law, Moore’s Law…Gerd’s law?

You all know Moore's law, and possibly Keck's law, see below. Read more via The Economist. Both curves are EXPONENTIAL (as is Metcalf's law of Networks, I suppose). I have talked about this for the past few years – our challenge is that humans are NOT. We are linear and organic, not binary but multinary […]

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Must-Read Book by Rutger Bregman: Humankind – A Hopeful History (some shared highlights)

Must-Read Book by Rutger Bregman: Humankind – A Hopeful History (some shared highlights)

I am currently a really important book called HumanKind by Rutger Bregman that addresses an essential question I have debated with many people for a long time: Are human beings kind, good, benevolent and collaborative by nature, or not?

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