Digital Ethics: video and slides from my presentation at TedX Brussels

Digital Ethics and the future of humans in a digital world – Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard from Gerd Leonhard Digital Ethics Gerd Leonhard TedXBrussels Futurist Speaker-web  9mb PDF High res version via Dropbox (30MB PDF) More details and lifestream here Great illustration of my talk by the TedxBrussels illustrator Zsofi Lang. Thanks!!   UPDATE: here is the video   … Continue reading "Digital Ethics: video and slides from my presentation at TedX Brussels"

▶ Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard on Jibo and so-called social robots (TedX Brussels), Digital Ethics – YouTube

The Futurebots are here: IBM Watson ingests 2,000 TED Talks, now answers your deepest questions. The end of Futurists? Take the Poll.

Great read via Business Insider UK about IBM’s Watson ‘watching’ and understanding (?) and analysing (ok… yes) 2000+ Ted Talks. He/she/it (?) now knows everything there is about trivial questions such as: What is the relationship between money and psychology?        What is the secret to happiness?    What is the meaning of life? … Continue reading "The Futurebots are here: IBM Watson ingests 2,000 TED Talks, now answers your deepest questions. The end of Futurists? Take the Poll."

Digital transformation: the key points and some bottom lines by keynote speaker Gerd Leonhard

Me and my colleagues at The Futures Agency are getting a lot of speaking requests on the Digital Transformation topic (or should I say ‘meme’) so I figured it would be good to share some of the key points here. Enjoy and spread the word if you like the post.   The valley of death     Gradually then suddenly     The Internet, and … Continue reading "Digital transformation: the key points and some bottom lines by keynote speaker Gerd Leonhard"

The future of work and jobs: a short overview of the key issues, illustrations, stats and videos

The future of work and jobs has become a major topic for me. It is abundantly clear that the exponential digitisation, optimization, automation, virtualisation and robotisation (phew!) of society will result in a huge number of job losses around the globe, first in blue-collar jobs and then in white-collar jobs and among the so-called knowledge … Continue reading "The future of work and jobs: a short overview of the key issues, illustrations, stats and videos"