Category: Technology and Humanity
New paradigms for a new world. Join us for this online event: futurists Gerd Leonhard & John Eyles, August 7 2020
Welcome to the Great Transformation, accelerated by Covid19: Big Tech, Big State, Big Health, Big Green. What new paradigms are emerging? A free online event August 7 2020 8am CET 8pm NZ. Sign up here. This is a free event, live-streaming on YouTube and on my LinkedIn page (registration is requested, however), presented by: Gerd Leonhard, Futurist […]
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This may be my best virtual keynote so far: The Great Transformation – our future (for LinkedIn Latam)
MUST WATCH… and please share. This is the complete 1080p / HD recording of my keynote at LinkedIn Latam’s Blue Room event on June 22, 2020, featuring my new, fully immersive virtual background presentation style. Data was the new oil – but now data can also be the new plutonium (i.e. it can be used […]
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If you’re interested in AI, you should really watch this video: Turing Lecture: Provably beneficial AI with Stuart Russell
If you're interested in AI, you should really watch this video: Turing Lecture: Provably beneficial AI with Stuart Russell
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Technology and Humanity, Digital Ethics and the Future of Europe: video of my virtual keynote at PODIM 2020
Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard’s latest virtual keynote on Technology and Humanity at PODIM 2020 (using Zoom virtual backgrounds) … and the Future of Europe, at PODIM 2020. Thanks to PODIM for inviting me and for making this video available. I am using some new virtual backgrounds in this talk (using Zoom). Some of my key … Continue reading "Technology and Humanity, Digital Ethics and the Future of Europe: video of my virtual keynote at PODIM 2020"
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Our future with/post Corona: new virtual keynote for MGI Worldwide (with animated Zoom backgrounds)
Via MGI Worldwide andhttps://gerd.fm/2Mlec5c (LinkedIn). This presentation features unique virtual backgrounds using Zoom. “Listen to futurist, speaker and author Gerd Leonhard talk about a post-corona future and what to expect in the next 3-5 years. There was a time before Corona, and there will be a time after Corona, where we all have to learn […]
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Ομιλία Gerd Leonhard «Technology vs. Humanity» | Generali Hellas – new video with subtitles in Greek
Ποιος είναι ο ρόλος του Ανθρώπου σε μία νέα πραγματικότητα που γίνεται ολοένα και πιο ψηφιακή; Μπορεί η Τεχνολογία να συνυπάρξει με την ανάγκη μας για Ανθρώπινη Προσέγγιση και Επικοινωνία; Τι μας διαφοροποιεί από τις μηχανές και τι θα μας πάει μπροστά; Ποιος είναι ο ρόλος της ασφάλισης ενόψει αυτής της νέας πραγματικότητας;
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Balconies: The new performance space for musicians in lockdown: some pretty amazing pictures (via MSN)
“Quarantine has popularized a new kind of performance. When all the world can’t be a stage, it seems during lockdown the balcony will have to do, as this platform (and its bigger cousin, the terrace) have become stand-in venues for performances” … via MSN
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New video interview: Gerd Leonhard at Fundacion Telefonica #RepensandoElMañana #postcoronafuture
This is the edited version of my conversation with Christoph Steck, Telefonica Madrid, on the most important with/post-corona future scenarios also see my new page at http://www.postcoronafuture.com This video is in ENGLISH (only the intro is in Spanish). The original video is here: https://youtu.be/R59SlyTnaww Thanks to Christoph and Fundacion Telefonica for inviting me and making this recording available.
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20 minutes from the future with Gerd Leonhard (video via Impactscool)
“20 minutes from the future”: Impactscool online format created to stimulate debate and reflection on the #future even in this emergency time. On May 6, Gerd Leonhard, Futurist, Humanist and CEO of @The Futures Agency, will discuss with Cristina Pozzi and Andrea Dusi about the future scenarios after Covid-19 will end.
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Tech giants are profiting — and getting more powerful — even as the global economy tanks (via WaPo)
There are really two Americas right now,” said Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at the New York University Stern School of Business and author of “The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.” “There is Big Tech and there is everyone else. They can do what very few companies can do, which is play offense in the middle of a pandemic.”
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My open letter to AirBnB: Do the right thing: extenuating circumstances are the New Normal!
Open letter to AirBnB: Do the right thing: extenuating circumstances are the New Normal!
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Open letter to AirBnB: Do the right thing: extenuating circumstances are the New Normal!
Open letter to AirBnB: Do the right thing: extenuating circumstances are the New Normal!
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Living in a Ghost Town – The Rolling Stones’ new song. Love it!
I’ve been a Rolling Stones fan forever – and this song is another reason why. The Stones totally rock!!!
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Here are the videos, audio, images and polls from our live debate: Humanist vs Transhumanist
Read more about this event here. My Futures Agency colleague and fellow futurist Calum Chace disagrees with me on many of my core messages on topics such as the singularity, (trans)-humanism, artificial intelligence and what I call ‘man+machine futures’. Calum Chace (the transhumanist) is a global keynote speaker and best-selling writer about the future impact of AI. His best-known books on […]
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Online Conference on Leadership: a short sample reel
This is what next-gen digital conferencing looks like:) Read more about this event, and watch the entire video
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New podcast with VoiceEd Radio: Episode 6 – Gerd Leonhard: Technology vs. Humanity
In Episode 6 Nick talks with Futurist Gerd Leonhard about:The importance of developing Foresight for everyoneOur Star Trek future – as long as we collaborateKey skills that humans need to developThe future is a mindset not a timeframeThe social aspect of learningThe illusion of not having to work hard to ‘learn’There is no such thing […]
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Winners and losers in the world after corona: the age of big government?
overnments will strong-arm or nationalize companies, pay salaries, compensate businesses and do it by printing money and piling up debt. No one expects the invisible hand to fix this problem, so we are in for an age of big government. If it sweeps aside foolish opposition in the United States to wiser taxation, gun control and especially universal health care, then coronavirus will have done some good.”
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This is how I do virtual keynotes using Zoom’s virtual backgrounds capabilities
This is how I do virtual keynotes using Zoom's virtual backgrounds capabilities
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COVID-19 has created a wartime atmosphere in which dramatic system changes suddenly seem possible (must-read via ForeignPolicy.com)
This much is certain: The pandemic will lead to permanent shifts in political and economic power in ways that will become apparent only later.
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Video Interview with Gerd Leonhard @ Casa Ferhan, Rio de Janeiro: É muito importante proteger o que nos torna humanos (ENGLISH)
É muito importante proteger o que nos torna humanos
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