Category: Technology and Humanity
There Is One Thing Computers Will Never Beat Us At: Imperfection!
“In the world of the future, automated perfection is going to be common. Machines will bake perfect cakes, perfectly schedule appointments and keep an eye on your house. What is going to be scarce is human imperfection.”There Is One Thing Comput...
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Until March 1: write a review and get a free copy of Gerd Leonhard’s book “Technology vs Humanity”
If you are interested in reviewing Gerd Leonhard’s new book we will send you a free promotional copy. This offer is limited to the first 30 people that contact us before March 1, 2018. Interested? Use our contact form or send an email to emily@thefuturesagency.com and we will have a book delivered to you right away (Kindle version … Continue reading "Until March 1: write a review and get a free copy of Gerd Leonhard’s book “Technology vs Humanity”"
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The Revolt Against Silicon Valley’s Failed Dream- hard hitting post by Umair Haque
“I’ve warned for a long time that organizations — whether societies or corporations or political parties — must focus, in this troubled, fractured age, on mattering to people: really improving and transforming their lives. The “backlash” tech fa...
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Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s presentation at the NASSCOM BPM Strategy Summit in Bengaluru, India: PDF and video
More details on the event, also here Nasscom BPM Bangalore Gerd Leonhard Technology Humanity The Future Public Deck LOW RES 20 MB PDF UPDATE January 28, 2018: the video Some of the key slides below! SaveSave
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New keynote video: exponential change and the future of technology and humanity (Gerd Leonhard Applause Digital XChange 2017)
Thanks to Applause San Francisco for inviting me and for making this video available.
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New keynote video: Technology and Humanity – what’s our future? Futurist Gerd Leonhard at Sogeti Digital Happiness event, Brussels Nov 2017
Nice one … imho:) At Sogeti Executive Summit 2017: ‘In Pursuit of Digital Happiness’. For more info about the event see: https://www.sogeti.com/ summit2017 and labs.sogeti.com
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Facebook is no longer ‘social’ anything – it’s an AI-platform that needs to be regulated (updated)
Last year’s reports that some apparently well-funded Russian entities used Facebook to systemically disseminate fake news and seed widespread dissent during the 2016 U.S. elections is not only worrisome because of the damage that is being done to the democratic process, the impact on the credibility of social media and the overall trust in the Internet … Continue reading "Facebook is no longer ‘social’ anything – it’s an AI-platform that needs to be regulated (updated)"
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Great read about datamining, and nice animation (via Bloomberg)
The Brutal Fight to Mine Your Data and Sell It to Your Boss. Silicon Valley makes billions of dollars peddling personal information, supported by an ecosystem of bit players. One of them, an upstart called HiQ, is going up against LinkedIn in a battle for your lucrative professional identity. By Drake Bennett SaveSave
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New video: artificial intelligence and the future of business and humanity. Gerd Leonhard’s Spark 2017 keynote at Capgemini 2017 CXO Forum, Pebble Beach CA
Here is the video of my entire keynote. You can download the slide deck via this link. Download the MP4 mobile version 250MB here. Special thanks to CapGemini for making this video available!
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Some of my best slides from the past 6 weeks: technology, humanity and the future (a special FuturistGerd collection of visual memes)
All images are licensed under creative commons non-commercial attribution license (i.e. you can use all images if you provide proper credit to futurist Gerd Leonhard). You can also download these images via my Flickr Stream.
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New video interview Futurist / Humanist Gerd Leonhard on Digital Happiness: Technology vs. Humanity?
Thanks to Sogeti for making this video available
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You will lose your job to a robot—and sooner than you think (a rather dark view but… worth reading), via MotherJones
“Until we figure out how to fairly distribute the fruits of robot labor, it will be an era of mass joblessness and mass poverty.”You will lose your job to a robot—and sooner than you thinkhttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/you-will-lose...
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Why AI Is the ‘New Electricity’ – Knowledge@Wharton
““AI is the new electricity,” said Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera and an adjunct Stanford professor who founded the Google Brain Deep Learning Project, in a keynote speech at the AI Frontiers conference that was held this past weekend in Sili...
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Gerd Leonhard’s presentation at LaFutura in Dubai: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
Here is my deck from LaFutura 2017 in Dubai, on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity La Futura AI and the future of humanity Dubai Public version low res
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Resisting Reduction: a must-read manifesto by Joi Ito
“Nature’s ecosystem provides us with an elegant example of a complex adaptive system where myriad “currencies” interact and respond to feedback systems that enable both flourishing and regulation. This collaborative model–rather than a model of ...
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Here is my slide-deck from RethinkFood 2017, keynote at the Culinary Institute in Napa: technology, humanity and the future of food
…that was a great event! You can watch the webcast archives here, soon. rethinkfood culinary institute gerd leonhard futurist technology vs humanity PUBLIC low res Some best-of scenes from my slide-deck:
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Was Saudi Arabia wrong to give citizenship to a robot? (I’d say yes, too)
“It seems foolish and misguided to give a robot an official government status that creates any semblance of equality to an actual human. Machines aren’t people; even if you believe in the singularity we’re not there yet. Sophia is no more human ...
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This Cardiologist Is Betting That His Lab-Grown Meat Startup Can Solve the Global Food Crisis (made me think)
“Meat without animals. It's not a new notion. In a 1932 essay predicting sundry future trends, Winston Churchill wrote, "We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separate...
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The Real Story of Automation Beginning with One Simple Chart (Via Scott Santens)
“What should be immediately apparent is that as the number of oil rigs declined due to falling oil prices, so did the number of workers the oil industry employed. But when the number of oil rigs began to rebound, the number of workers employed d...
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Slide-deck from my presentation at Mayo Clinic Rochester: 2017 Rewoldt Lecture: the future of technology and democracy
Here it is – big thanks to the Rewoldt family for supporting this event, and to the Mayo Clinic for bringing me here! mayo clinic gerd leonhard rewoldt lecture technology democracy the future PUBLIC low res 17MB PDF
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