Greetings everyone, here is the next edition of my newsletter. First, if you're in London next week
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September 1 · Issue #11 · View online
Futurist and Humanist. Global Keynote Speaker. Author of 'Technology vs Humanity'. Film-Maker. CEO of The Futures Agency. Zürich / Switzerland. My focus is on the future of humanity. Read more on my blog: https://gerd.fm/2019mission
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Greetings everyone, here is the next edition of my newsletter. First, if you’re in London next week please join me for the ‘Technology versus Humanity’ book launch on Sept 8 (this is a free event and almost all seats are now reserved so click now or never:) or for this special London Futurists event on Sept 10. Find out more about my new book here, order it with a final pre-release discount via my publisher (bulk deals, too) here, and read my brand-new 'TVH memes and bottom-lines’ summary here. Second, just in case you are close-by, the world premier of my new interactive live program (finally, sans clicker and the conventional slide-deck marathon) called The Future Show Live will happen at SIBOS / Innotribe 2016 in Geneva, on September 28 - watch out for the video recording soon afterwards. With TFSLive we will attempt nothing less than to redefine the very meaning of 'keynote presentation’.
Thanks for being a subscriber, and if you enjoy my updates please share this newsletter as widely as possible using the links below. Kind regards from Zürich!
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Conversations with Gerd #1: a short video introducing my new book "Technology vs Humanity"
This is the first episode of my new video series entitled ‘conversations with Gerd’. This one explains what my new book is all about, in around 2 minutes :)
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Technology Vs. Human - Who Is Going To Win? An Interview With Gerd Leonhard (Forbes)
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IEET Interview with me, about my new book
“The dilemma is, of course, that we don’t want to hamper or stop the progress of technology (even if we could) but we certainly should make sure that all that technology still serves us i.e. that it still contributes to human flourishing rather than its own. We will therefore need a pretty ingenious mix of precaution and proaction (a good chunk of my book is about that, too). We will need wisdom not just information or knowledge…”
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New podcast interview with Gerd Leonhard: Technology vs Humanity? Via Digital Mindfulness
A nice podcast covering some of the key topics in the book
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The internet as an engine of liberation is an innocent fraud | Nicholas Carr, Aeon Essays
Hard-hitting stuff such as: “technology promised to set us free. Instead it has trained us to withdraw from the world into distraction and dependency” 5*
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Yuval Noah Harari on big data, Google and the end of free will — FT.com
Contemplate this, via Noah: “Now, a fresh shift is taking place. Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies, and human authority was legitimised by humanist ideologies, so high-tech gurus and Silicon Valley prophets are creating a new universal narrative that legitimises the authority of algorithms and Big Data. This novel creed may be called “Dataism”. In its extreme form, proponents of the Dataist worldview perceive the entire universe as a flow of data, see organisms as little more than biochemical algorithms and believe that humanity’s cosmic vocation is to create an all-encompassing data-processing system — and then merge into it…” (hopefully the FT’s magnificent paywall will actually allow you to read this:) 5*
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via the same FT piece © Janne Iivonen
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Where machines could replace humans--and where they can’t (yet) | McKinsey & Company
“The technical potential for automation differs dramatically across sectors and activities” Good resource, even though I’m not sure I’d agree with all of it…
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Machines of Loving Grace: interview with John Markoff
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I already live in the future — and so should you - by Vivek Wadhwa
Vivek makes a lot of good points here - He’s one to follow! 4*
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The ethics of self-driving cars – what would you do? | World Economic Forum
The good old trolley problem revisited
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Of prediction and policy | The Economist
Governments have much to gain from applying algorithms to public policy, but controversies loom… 4*
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72 stunning things in the future that will be common ten years from now that don’t exist today | DaVinci Institute
Huge list… don’t read this before going to bed!
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Who Should Control Artificial Intelligence?
Give me a few more weeks to find an answer to this question:)
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How AI is disrupting the world’s largest industries
A big topic on my new techvshuman blog
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The truth about smart cities: ‘In the end, they will destroy democracy' | The Guardian
“The smart city is, to many urban thinkers, just a buzzphrase that has outlived its usefulness: ‘the wrong idea pitched in the wrong way to the wrong people’. So why did that happen – and what’s coming in its place…”
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GerdFeed: Futurist Gerd Leonhard's Best Links
This is where I share my best reads and other stuff I like via Instapaper, Pocket etc. You can have these nuggets delivered via email every day, if desired
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All my films, videos and keynotes on Technology vs Humanity
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Finally, here is my tentative travel schedule for the rest of this year; we keep it constantly updated as it changes. Feel free to ping me to meet up if desired!
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Stay hungry stay foolish :) Or: Stay human -stay happy!
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