The Coming Clash Between Man and Machine: Technology versus-and-with humanity?

The Coming Clash Between Man and Machine  by Gerd Leonhard, Future Thinker, Author of Technology vs Humanity You may be busy posting your latest updates on social media or Christmas shopping on Amazon, but maybe unbeknownst to you we are living through the most significant days in human history. Not only is computing poised to soon become ‘conversational’, invisible and ‘cognitive’ and surpass the … Continue reading "The Coming Clash Between Man and Machine: Technology versus-and-with humanity?"

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My best slides from December 2016: technology and/with/versus humanity?

New deck from flickr !  Read the book now:) Download the PDF: future-challenge-opportunities-futurist-speaker-gerd-leonhard-technology-humanity-collect-public-dec2-2016  24MB

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New: conversations with Gerd #2 – the global brain is near (Technology vs/and Humanity)

The latest from my new series ‘conversations with Gerd‘.  Check out my new book here   Technology vs Humanity Technology vs Humanity: key messages Technology vs Humanity: Forbes Interview Technology vs Humanity: the film Technology vs Humanity: digital obesity? Technology vs Humanity: podcast with Richard Watson The Global Brain TVH Blog The Global Brain is … Continue reading "New: conversations with Gerd #2 – the global brain is near (Technology vs/and Humanity)"

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A key message from my ‘Exponential Change’ film: anything that cannot be digitised or automated becomes extremely valuable !

… and that means HUMAN-ONLY skills and idiosyncrasies   Watch the entire film below (4 mins). Download the film (300MB MP4) (OK to reuse under cerative commons attribution non-commercial license)

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My comments on “What Black Mirror, Her and the near-future genre tell us about tomorrow” (TheGuardian)

I was recently interviewed by Noah Berlatsky and his piece just went online at TheGuardian  “Taking after George Orwell and JG Ballard, some of the most prophetic and disturbing fiction about the near future continues to be made on TV and film…” Part of the reason that the near future is enjoying such a boom at … Continue reading "My comments on “What Black Mirror, Her and the near-future genre tell us about tomorrow” (TheGuardian)"

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