Sorry that it's been so long since my last update - it's been really crazy-busy around here, with my
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February 25 · Issue #21 · View online
The best links and must-reads aggregated by Gerd Leonhard, Futurist & Humanist, Keynote Speaker, Author of 'Technology vs Humanity', Film-Maker, and CEO of The Futures Agency in Zürich / Switzerland.
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I promise to keep you posted in more regular intervals, going forward. So here it goes, a bit lengthy this time but really worth your perusal, imho:) Kind regards from Zürich, Gerd
PS: we are looking for a strong publishing partner for the French and Spanish editions of Technology vs Humanity - please ping me via my contact form if you have any ideas (both translations will be done in the next 4-6 weeks so we are ready to roll) PS2: if you want to reply to this newsletter please kindly change the header when sending, otherwise I may miss your response. Thanks!
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There's my bottom-line!
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Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs. Hard-hitting MUST READ by Kei-Fu Lee (MIT Technology Review) 💥
“It will soon be obvious that half our tasks can be done better at almost no cost by AI. This will be the fastest transition humankind has experienced, and we’re not ready for it”
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A very special keynote video: Technology and Humanity – what’s our future? My recent talk at Sogeti's Digital Happiness event, Nov 2017 👁
This was a pretty amazing event and my 34-minute talk was backed by some fancy extra-wide screen graphics… check it out! Get the 5* Sogeti Report on Digital Happiness here. Download the MP4 here.
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The Great Awakening | Arianna Huffington nails it
“How our thinking about technology fundamentally changed in 2017 and where we go from here” Totally spot on. READ NOW. ⚡️⚡️
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Facebook Can’t Be Fixed. – NewCo Shift
Mark Zuckerberg has announced his annual “personal challenge,” which in the past has ranged from eating meat he personally kills to learning Mandarin. This year, his personal challenge isn’t personal…
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And here’s my own take on Facebook 👈👈
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Facebook is no longer ‘social’ anything – it’s an AI-platform that needs to be regulated (updated) – Futurist Gerd Leonhard 🔥🔥
Why Facebook is an AI that needs to be regulated by Futurist Gerd Leonhard
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What Facebook Did to American Democracy - The Atlantic
And why it was so hard to see it coming
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Why Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Need to Be Disrupted (yes, I very much agree)
Four companies dominate our daily lives unlike any other in human history. The only logical conclusion? We must bust up big tech.
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We Can’t Trust Facebook to Regulate Itself - The New York Times
It has no incentive to do so. I would know — I worked there.
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My Google and Facebook investments made a fortune, but now they're a menace (Roger McNamee)
The growing Internet monopolies have grabbed so much of our attention that they are a menace to public health and democracy.
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Maybe It’s Time To Regulate Gadgets And Apps Like Cigarettes
Silicon Valley companies need to find an alternative to “engagement time” as a key measurement of their products’ success.
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Your smartphone is making you stupid, antisocial and unhealthy. So why can’t you put it down? - The Globe and Mail
A decade ago, smart devices promised to change the way we think and interact, and they have – but not by making us smarter. Eric Andrew-Gee explores the growing body of scientific evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds 🌟
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The Revolt Against Silicon Valley’s Failed Dream – Eudaimonia and Co ⚡️⚡️
Hard-hitting post by Umair Haque
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The Tech 'Regrets' Industry
Silicon Valley has lost some of its shine in recent months, what with the “fake news” and the bots and the hacks and the hate speech. All the promises about the democratization of infor…
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The IoT Talent Consortium appoints futurist Gerd Leonhard as Special Advisor
The IoT Talent Consortium (IoTTC) today announced the appointment of renowned futurist, author, and keynote speaker Gerd Leonhard as Special Advisor. Together, they will work towards addressing the exponential change driven by IoT-enabled digital transformation while assisting the IoT Talent Consortium’s members in recognizing and creating awareness surrounding the complexity and importance of the human element in bringing about change… 👁
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Keynote video: exponential change and the future of technology and humanity (at Applause Digital XChange 2017)
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Shared keynote presentation: AI, thinking machines and the future of humanity (Futurist Gerd) – Futurist Gerd Leonhard
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Five new human rights for the Digital Age (excerpt from Gerd Leonhard’s book Technology vs Humanity) – Futurist Gerd Leonhard
This is a slightly modified and hyper-linked excerpt from my new book ‘Technology vs Humanity’. Find out more about 'Technology vs Humanity’, check out the reviews, read the cheat sheet, or buy the book on Amazon.
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Why upgrading your brain could make you less human | Aeon Ideas
Within the lifetimes of most children alive today, bioenhancement is likely to become a basic feature of human society. Personalised pharmaceuticals will enable us to modify our bodies and minds in powerful and precise ways, with far fewer side-ef…
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The Bots Beat Us. Now What? | FiveThirtyEight
In the summer of 1977, Bobby Fischer was in self-imposed exile in Pasadena, California. The greatest chess player on Earth at the time, Fischer had joined an ap…
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In our race to rival robots, we're forgetting how to be human — Quartz 👈👈
The drumbeat of science, technology, engineering, and math has picked up tempo, but a crisis of culture has emerged from its cadence. As we embark ever more aggressively on the path to master machines, we are forgetting the very foundations of what it means to be human. As we seek to optimize every process, collect…
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Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer SPOT-ON
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Big Ideas 2018 — Research by ARK Invest on Disruptive Innovation - some great stats here 👈
From a broad spectrum of disruptive innovations, Big Ideas 2018 showcases a selection of innovations that we believe will accelerate the pace of change. GREAT.
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The Malicious AI Report
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The changing nature of work and the future workforce | Deloitte University Press
Paradigm-shifting forces such as cognitive technologies and the open talent economy are reshaping the future workforce, driving many organizations to reconsider how they design jobs, organize work, and plan for future growth.
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The World in 2050: PwC
The report sets out long-term GDP projections for 32 of the largest economies in the world over the period to 2050.
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The 'internet of things' is sending us back to the Middle Ages
The companies that make our digital devices think – and act – like they still own them, even after we’ve bought them. Are we becoming digital serfs?
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The new Luddites: why former digital prophets are turning against tech
Neo-Luddism began to emerge in the postwar period. First after the emergence of nuclear weapons, and secondly when it became apparent new computer technologies had the power to change our lives completely.
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'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia | The Guardian
The Google, Apple and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster
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The Real Problem With Voice Assistants Like Siri Is Your Brain | WIRED
Humans are terrible at multitasking. Conversational interfaces won’t change that.
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There's Blood In The Water In Silicon Valley
The bad new politics of big tech.
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The Real Risks of AI – NewCo Shift
This matters because AI is being invoked left and right. Basic misunderstandings of what AI is and isn’t are also creating unnecessary fear, and those fears in turn stifle adoption. Confoundingly, by…
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America has been downgraded to a “flawed democracy,” but not just because of Trump, the Economist Intelligence Unit says — Quartz
Does Donald Trump’s election mark the beginning of the end of liberal democracy? Some fear a weakening of civil rights, legal protections, and media freedoms, and haven’t been dissuaded by his first few days in office. A new report by the Economist Intelligence Unit confirms that democracy is in retreat in the US, but Trump isn’t to…
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Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse – Umair Hague
“America has always been a pioneer — only today, it is host not just to problems not just rarely seen in healthy societies — it is pioneering novel social pathologies have never been seen in the modern world outside present-day America, period…“ FLAME-SHIELD ON! 💥
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Labor 2030: The Collision of Demographics, Automation and Inequality - Bain & Company
The business environment of the 2020s will be more volatile and economic swings more extreme (note: the USA will be hit quite hard by this, imho)
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What the future of work will mean for jobs, skills, and wages | McKinsey & Company
In an era marked by rapid advances in automation and artificial intelligence, new research assesses the jobs lost and jobs gained under different scenarios through 2030.
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The bottom line
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The Quartz guide to artificial intelligence: What is it, why is it important, and should we be afraid?
What is artificial intelligence? Why is it important? Why is everyone talking about it all of a sudden? If you skim online headlines, you’ll likely read about how AI is powering Amazon and Google’s virtual assistants, or how it’s taking all the jobs (debatable), but not a good explanation of what it is (or whether…
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The age of artificial intelligence surveillance is here — Quartz
For years we’ve been recorded in public on security cameras, police bodycams, livestreams, other people’s social media posts, and on and on. But even if there’s a camera in our face, there’s always been a slight assurance that strangers wouldn’t really be able to do anything that affects us with the footage. The time and…
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The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence - The New York Times (another good one by Kei-Fu Lee)
It’s not robot overlords. It’s economic inequality and a new global order.
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Top 9 ethical issues in artificial intelligence | World Economic Forum
Couldn’t have said it better myself
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PwC’s Global Artificial Intelligence Study
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a source of both huge excitement and apprehension. What are the real opportunities and threats for your business? Drawing on a detailed analysis of the business impact of AI, we at PwC identify the most valuable commercial opening in your market and how to take advantage of them.
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Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence? - Scientific American
Latest news and features on science issues that matter including earth, environment, and space. Get your science news from the most trusted source!
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The Guardian view on robots and humanity: The Guardian
Editorial: Machines can’t feel or do many of the things that make us human. Sadly that doesn’t dispel the concerns about them putting people out of business
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AI is coming. Here are 5 ways to win when it arrives | World Economic Forum
The rise of artificial intelligence raises a discomfiting question: if machines can do everything, then how are humans going to make a living?
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Using thought to control machines - The next frontier
TECHNOLOGIES are often billed as transformative. For William Kochevar, the term is justified. Mr Kochevar is paralysed below the shoulders after a cycling accident, yet has managed to feed himself by his own hand. This remarkable feat is partly thanks to electrodes, implanted in his right arm, which stimulate muscles.
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Serious quantum computers are finally here. What are we going to do with them? - MIT Technology Review
Hello, quantum world. BIG CHANGE. ⚠️
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GerdFeed: the best of what I read as I read it
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: Subscribe to Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s Best…
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My public cloud on Google Drive
Download most of my recent slide-decks, free books and keynote videos - all subject to creative commons attribution license
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Futurist Gerd Leonhard on Medium
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My Media Resources
Gifs, images, videos… all yours to use!
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On Film – Technology vs Humanity: the coming clash of man and machine
All my videos on my #1 topic
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...even tho screens and the cloud can supply some nice hedonic happiness:)
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