“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”

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.

“How our thinking about technology fundamentally changed in 2017 and where we go from here”  Totally spot on. READ NOW. ⚡️⚡️

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…

Why Facebook is an AI that needs to be regulated by Futurist Gerd Leonhard

And why it was so hard to see it coming

Four companies dominate our daily lives unlike any other in human history.  The only logical conclusion? We must bust up big tech.

It has no incentive to do so. I would know — I worked there.

The growing Internet monopolies have grabbed so much of our attention that they are a menace to public health and democracy.

Silicon Valley companies need to find an alternative to “engagement time” as a key measurement of their products’ success.

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 🌟

Hard-hitting post by Umair Haque

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…

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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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.

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…

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…

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…

Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer  SPOT-ON

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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​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.

The report sets out long-term GDP projections for 32 of the largest economies in the world over the period to 2050.

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?

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.

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

Humans are terrible at multitasking. Conversational interfaces won’t change that.

The bad new politics of big tech.

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…

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…

“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!  💥

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)

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.

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…

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…

It’s not robot overlords. It’s economic inequality and a new global order.

Couldn’t have said it better myself

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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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

The rise of artificial intelligence raises a discomfiting question: if machines can do everything, then how are humans going to make a living?

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.

Hello, quantum world.  BIG CHANGE. ⚠️

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