Tag: Pocket
Why we need the ‘Davos Manifesto’ for a better kind of capitalism
What kind of capitalism do we want? That may be the defining question of our era. If we want to sustain our economic system for future generations, we must answer it correctly. Generally speaking, we have three models to choose from. Read full Article
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The company of the future must do well by doing good
In the past 50-100 years, we have created immense prosperity. In 2019, global GDP is expected to reach almost US$ 90,000 billion, compared to just over US$ 1,000 billion at the start of the previous century. Read full Article
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Your Life is Driven by Network Effects
What city you live in. Who you date or marry. Which job you choose. What clothes you wear. We all think we make these choices ourselves. It certainly feels like we’re in full control. Read full Article
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Caught in the Spotlight
In the smart city, cameras, sensors, networked objects, and algorithms gather intelligence about the built environment and the people who inhabit it, ostensibly to provide decision-makers (or decision-making software) with information that can enable more efficient provision of services — includin Read full Article
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EU mulls 5-year ban on facial recognition tech in public areas
BRUSSELS, Jan 16 (Reuters) – The European Union is considering banning facial recognition technology in public areas for up to five years, to give it time to work out how to prevent abuses, according to proposals seen by Reuters. Read full Article
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Our humanity needs to develop at the same speed as our technology
The way we view work life is influenced by the way we view the world. This view rests on the most fundamental assumptions we make about reality. Read full Article
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Advertising Makes Us Unhappy
The University of Warwick’s Andrew Oswald and his team compared survey data on the life satisfaction of more than 900,000 citizens of 27 European countries from 1980 to 2011 with data on annual advertising spending in those nations over the same period. Read full Article
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Can technology plan economies and destroy democracy?
ABOUT A CENTURY ago, engineers created a new sort of space: the control room. Before then, things that needed control were controlled by people on the spot. Read full Article
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Think You Can’t Escape Google? You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet
More than any designer this side of Cupertino, Matias Duarte has made phones easy to use. During his tenure at Google — first overseeing the design of Android — the vice president of… Read full Article
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We’ve spent the decade letting our tech define us. It’s out of control
We may come to remember this decade as the one when human beings finally realized we are up against something. We’re just not quite sure what it is. More of us have come to understand that our digital technologies are not always bringing out our best natures. Read full Article
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Alienated, Alone And Angry: What The Digital Revolution Really Did To Us
We were promised community, civics, and convenience. Instead, we found ourselves dislocated, distrustful, and disengaged. In April 1997, Wired magazine published a feature with the grand and regrettable title “Birth of a Digital Nation. Read full Article
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Technology vs Humanity: Gerd’s bottom lines and key messages
Below are some of the key messages presented in ‘Technology versus Humanity’, adapted and expanded for the purpose of clarification. Many of these memes are still very much work-in-progress and will be expanded upon in my upcoming keynotes, talks and presentations. Read full Article
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2020 Will Bring A New Renaissance – Humanity Over Technology [Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker]
Technology has replaced the once-mighty church and currently dominates our personal as well as professional lives. A few global behemoths – the churches of dataism – now control how we communicate and connect, search, buy and sell, entertain and learn. Read full Article
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Is there a crisis in capitalism?
I’m a big fan of Paul Collier. A highly respected Oxford economist (and a knight!), he has spent his career trying to understand and alleviate global poverty. Read full Article
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These 4 trends are shaping the future of your job
Whether you’re an optimist pointing to predictions of job creation or you’ve been worrying that a robot might be after your job, one thing is for certain. Read full Article
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Know-how
Machine learning – a kind of sub-field of artificial intelligence (AI) – is a means of training algorithms to discern empirical relationships within immense reams of data. Run a purpose-built algorithm by a pile of images of moles that might or might not be cancerous. Read full Article
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The AI Doctor Will See You Now
When MIT professor Regina Barzilay received her breast cancer diagnosis, she turned it into a science project. Read full Article
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Would You Let a Robot Take Care of Your Mother?
Robotic companions are being promoted as an antidote to the burden of longer, lonelier human lives. At stake is the future of what it means to be human. After Constance Gemson moved her mother to an assisted living facility, the 92-year-old became more confused, lonely and inarticulate. Read full Article
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AI Is Biased. Here’s How Scientists Are Trying to Fix It
Computers have learned to see the world more clearly in recent years, thanks to some impressive leaps in artificial intelligence. But you might be surprised—and upset—to know what these AI algorithms really think of you. Read full Article
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