Category: Technology and Humanity
Join us for the Transhumanist vs. Humanist Online Debate with Calum Chace and Gerd Leonhard April 23rd 2020
Calum Chace (the transhumanist) is a global keynote speaker and best-selling writer about the future impact of AI. His best-known books on AI are Surviving AI and The Economic Singularity. More at http://www.pandoras-brain.com/ Gerd Leonhard (the humanist) is a top-rated Futurist, the Author of Technology vs Humanity, the CEO of The Futures Agency and a Global Keynote Speaker see http://gerdtube.com
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Winners and losers in new world order #postcoronafuture (via the Guardian)
“In Hong Kong, graffiti reads: “There can be no return to normal because normal was the problem in the first place.
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Here is an entirely new way to present and do keynotes using Zoom backgrounds
As many of you may have noticed, responding to the Covid19 crisis that is destroying the keynote-speaking business as we know it, I have become even deeper involved with figuring out how to present virtually and how to best do what we at The Futures Agency call ‘Digital Conferences‘. As part of this exploration I […]
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Slides, images, audio and video from our online conference on The Future of Work, today
e Future of Work - the Great Transformation. Free online conference with Futurists Ross Dawson, Shara Evans, Gerd Leonhard. The world ‘after Corona’ will be dramatically different, and the way we work, when, where and why is changing forever.
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Slides, images, audio and video from our online conference on The Future of Work, April 9 2020
e Future of Work - the Great Transformation. Free online conference with Futurists Ross Dawson, Shara Evans, Gerd Leonhard. The world ‘after Corona’ will be dramatically different, and the way we work, when, where and why is changing forever.
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12 bullets: Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s Post-Corona Foresights
Last week, I wrote a fairly lengthy piece on The Great Transformation and what our world could look like, backcasting from late 2020. Many people have requested a shorter version, so here it is; slightly updated with some added angles. I hope you like it! Be sure to also visit my new PostCoronaFuture hub (daily […]
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12 bullets by Futurist Gerd Leonhard: essential Post-Corona Foresights
Last week, I wrote a fairly lengthy piece on The Great Transformation and what our world could look like, backcasting from late 2020. Many people have requested a shorter version, so here it is; slightly updated with some added angles. I hope you like it! Be sure to also visit my new PostCoronaFuture hub (daily […]
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New film: The Great Transformation: Futurist Gerd Leonhard on how #covid19 will impact our immediate future
New film: The Great Transformation: Futurist Gerd Leonhard on how #covid19 will impact our immediate future
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Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Must-read analysis via Politico
“The extraordinary shock(s) to our system that the coronavirus pandemic is bringing has the potential to break America out of the 50-plus year pattern of escalating political and cultural polarization we have been trapped in, and help us to change course toward greater national solidarity and functionality. It might sound idealistic, but there are two […]
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Sinking ships: post-corona, taking a cruise will be a stretch (via TheEconomist)
WHEN THE ZAANDAM, a cruise ship operated by Holland America Line, left Buenos Aires on March 7th, its passengers were promised 31 nights of “elegant and comfortable” luxury. They are now approaching Florida, and their holiday has been anything but elegant, comfortable or luxurious
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Join us April 9, 8am CET: The Future of Work – the Great Transformation. Free online conference with Futurists Ross Dawson, Shara Evans, Gerd Leonhard
Free online conference with Futurists Ross Dawson, Shara Evans, Gerd Leonhard
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Join us April 9, 5pm Sydney: The Future of Work – the Great Transformation. Free online conference with Futurists Ross Dawson, Shara Evans, Gerd Leonhard
Free online conference with Futurists Ross Dawson, Shara Evans, Gerd Leonhard
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Join us April 9, 9am CET: The Future of Work – the Great Transformation. Free online conference with Futurists Ross Dawson, Shara Evans, Gerd Leonhard
Free online conference with Futurists Ross Dawson, Shara Evans, Gerd Leonhard
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Simulating an epidemic (great youtube video on spread of Covid19)
Simulating an epidemic (great youtube video on spread of Covid19) I just received this link in Azeem Azhar’s newsletter “This week’s chart of the week has been replaced by a video from an excellent science communicator, 3Blue1Brown. A wonderful visualisation of physical distancing and its impact on a spreading virus” Have a look at my … Continue reading "Simulating an epidemic (great youtube video on spread of Covid19)"
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Can you hear me? The still very real obstacles to online meetings and conferencing – watch this really funny video clip
The obstacles to online meetings and conferencing - watch this really funny video clip
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This Is Silicon Valley’s Chance to Step Up for Humanity (Tristan Harris)
With the world on lockdown, tech platforms are now the social fabric. How they act in the next few days will decide their legacy, and perhaps our fate.
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One study predicts coronavirus could kill 81,000 Americans by June (good video via WEF)
Study: U.S. COVID-19 death toll could be 81,000
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The slides, audio and video from today’s digital conference on #Covid19 and the Future of Business
Free Digital Conference with Futurists Musgrave, Leonhard, Lyngso, Adamson: Covid-19 and The Future of Business
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The CoronaCrisis: a great transformation is coming
The CoronaCrisis: a great transformation is coming
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A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. How Covid-19 changed our world: Futurist Gerd Leonhard looks back from the near Future
A crisis we didn’t waste. How covid19 changed our world: Futurist Gerd Leonhard looks back from December 2020
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