Category: Technology and Humanity

Great gif showing the power of GPT3: pretty amazing AI-generated images

And… that’s it for Trump. Must watch, funny video via Jimmy Kimmel (Twitter)

Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s most recent videos on the 10 Game-Changers

Can now be viewed on my Youtube Channel here and here

IPSOS 2021 Global Advisor Predictions (some good food for thought here)

This report was just released and the results are quite interesting, Check out my highlights and comments below. “After a 2020 that is rated as the worst year for some time, people around the world are looking forward to 2021 for their country, their families and themselves, according to a new Ipsos’ Global Advisor poll […]

IPSOS 2021 Global Advisor Predictions (some good stats and food for thought)

This report was just released and the results are quite interesting, Check out my highlights and comments below. “After a 2020 that is rated as the worst year for some time, people around the world are looking forward to 2021 for their country, their families and themselves, according to a new Ipsos' Global Advisor poll […]

Exponential Progress towards a Sustainable Future: Some statistics I like to use

As I like to say ‘Sustainable will become the Profitable‘. Here are some key trends and stats I often use in my talks. Some related images below

Exponential Progress towards a Sustainable Future: Some statistics I like

As I like to say ‘Sustainable will become the Profitable‘. Here are some key trends and stats I often use in my talks. From a recent interview: Futurist Gerd Leonhard, who is based in Zurich, says the threat of the pandemic has caused a “global reset” that he predicts will take two or three years […]

Awesome humans on-top of amazing technology: Our Future

A new speaking topic for 2021 – you get to see this first:)

New Video: Futurist Gerd Leonhard Q&A Session at IEEE Global Conference on AI and IoT Dec 13 2020

This was a great event and we will publish the entire keynote on my Youtube channel in a few days as well; be sure to subscribe and hit the ‘notify me' – bell on YT:)) This is the edited recording of my public q&a session at the IEEE Global Conference on AI and IoT in […]

We are least aware of what our minds do best (Marvin Minsky)

Tacit knowledge or implicit knowledge (as opposed to formal, codified or explicit knowledge) is the kind of knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalizing it.

7 short videos on resilience and agility in the with/post covid world (Futurist Gerd Leonhard)

Covid-19 has changed and continues to change everything. And the speed of change and innovation is only accelerating. For businesses to successfully navigate these massive waves of disruption is going to require a whole new way of thinking about the world, the future, and the economy writ large.

Meet me at the IEEE Global Conference on AI and the IoT 2020 Dec 12-16 in Dubai (virtually)

More here Redefining Digital Transformation for a with/post-covid world: the next 10 years The ongoing covid-19 crisis represents a tremendous challenge as well as a unique opportunity for change. We are entering an era of Great Transformation (the WEF calls it ‘the great reset’), and we must proceed with foresight and practical wisdom. In 2020, ‘Big Tech’ […]

Some recent stats on food, agriculture and climate change

Via Your World in Data

Brazil 2020 Opportunity Tree: good report by McKinsey *pre-covid

But still very useful. Have a look here “This material seeks to offer some perspectives on the opportunities that we can envision for Brazil, carefully selected based on the experience accumulated by McKinsey over the past more than 30 years of operation in Brazil. It has received contributions from a substantial number of our more than […]

The Future is Vegetarian (I know… that sounds tough)

Read more via The Economist

The key question is no longer IF or HOW technology can do something but WHY it should, and WHO controls it.

Some of my most crucial messages are summarized in this short, hard-hitting presentation I gave yesterday at the Open Innovation Forum in Moscow on Oct 21, 2020 (virtually of course). Thanks to https://openinnovations.ru/en/ for inviting me. The future is people planet purpose and prosperity. Or none. We are NOT going back to Normal, post-covid. We […]

Here is my recent TedX Modena talk: Heaven or Hell – the future is our choice!

We're at a fork in the history of humanity. The next ten years will make or break humanity's future. It could be heaven or it could be hell. Where are we headed and what are the electric 3rd rails we need to avoid? Check out futurist Gerd Leonhard's acclaimed TEDx Modena talk here.

Ten lessons for a post-pandemic world: must-read new book by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria (some shared morsels)

"America will always disappoint its most ardent detractors—and admirers. It’s a big, complicated place, and you can always find in it what you want. But the pandemic laid bare fissures that have been persistently widening. They were best described decades ago by the economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who wrote that America was defined by “private opulence and public squalor.” The United States has long had a dazzling private sector, but its public institutions, with a few exceptions—such as the independent, self-funded, and highly respected Federal Reserve—limp along. Washington can throw money at a problem, which often does the job eventually, but it cannot run a complex national program to serve a collective benefit. Social Security—whose job is mainly to write checks—works, while the Veterans Administration is a bloated, bureaucratic disaster... These ills of government are an American, not a democratic, disease. Many other democracies handled this pandemic effectively, better than any dictatorship. That list includes countries run by political parties of all stripes"

New: Gerd.Live #3: thoughtful conversation with Jennifer Morgan, CEO of Greenpeace: climate change and with/post-covid futures

I’m having a riveting conversation with Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, on topics such as the with/postcorona future, the end of oil and fossil fuels, the rise of women as global leaders, the shift towards sustainable capitalism and climate change action. More on Greenpeace: https://www.instagram.com/greenpeace/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/gree…

Must-read: 2020 State of AI Report (Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s Highlights)

I just went through this report and here are my best snippets, below. The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. We aim to trigger an informed conversation about the state of AI and its implication for the future. The Report is produced by AI investors Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth. Research: Technology breakthroughs and capabilities.  Talent: Supply, […]