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February 25 · Issue #51 · 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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Greetings! I hope you are well, safe and healthy - and feeling optimistic about the future. On my end, I just launched an exciting new project with 2 fellow futurists (David Houle and Glen Hiemstra) and many other great people: The Fork in the Road Project. In our manifesto, we set forth that humanity is at the Fork in the Road: What we decide on - and what we do - in the next 10 years will determine if we flourish or perish. The good news is that’s not too late - but a lot more urgency is needed. Please have a look and join us if you’re interested (there’s a sign up form on the site). So here are some of the best things I’ve found over the past week. Enjoy, stay safe, and feel free to ping me anytime if you need something. Greetings from a surprisingly sunny Zurich
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Find out more: https://forkintheroadproject.com/
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The Fork In The Road Project
The next 10 years will decide the future of humanity. We will have all the tools but will we have the will? This is a call for global action on 4 existential topics. …
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A ‘mass experiment’ for the climate - BBC Future
The leader of Australia’s second most populated city believes Covid-19 has helped her clarify what’s important to her as an individual and as mayor. “I have become much more resolute about my values, prioritising humanity and protecting the environment, so they can play a larger role in driving my agenda.“
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The one thing I hope people take away from my climate book | Bill Gates
Bill Gates believes lowering the Green Premiums is the single most important thing we can do to avoid a climate disaster. His book is a MUST-READ and in my queue |
My new 2021 speaking topic: Sustainable is the new Profitable. Green is the new Digital.
Why and how the decarbonisation of our economy is the biggest opportunity in this coming decade ‘Digital transformation’ is just business-as usual-by now..
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Should the rich pay for the pandemic? Argentina thinks so. Other countries are taking a look.
“The very wealthy have already been able to recover financially from the pandemic, and going forward, you’re going to see an economic recovery moving at two speeds for the rich and everyone else,” she said. “So yes, you’re going to see many countries taking a look at the idea of a wealth tax this year.”
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From Moonshots to Earthshots | by Mariana Mazzucato - Project Syndicate
The pandemic has highlighted the cost of neglecting public investment, both in the welfare state and value creation. But the crisis has also created a huge opportunity to pursue industrial policies beyond traditional sectoral and technological silos, and to restore mission-driven governance in the public interest.
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The End of Analog is here - yet a new Human Renaissance is coming (exclusive link!)
The Covid-19 crisis is a really tough challenge for many of us - yet it has also brought us a decade’s worth of ‘digital transformation’ in only 12 months. How and when we work, where / if / how we travel, how we communicate, how we sell and shop, and how we learn has fundamentally changed in a very short time; and we are NOT going back to normal (and normal wasn’t good enough). “When looms weave by themselves, man’s slavery will end.” —Aristotle, 4th century BC
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Ain't that the truth:)
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💡 Big Tech's PR Perception Problem: by Azeem Azhar
Facebook is talking about leaving Australia. But what would happen if Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp shutdown in your country? Would society be better off?
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Regulating technology — Benedict Evans
We regulate lots of industries, from food to banking to airlines, and now,
increasingly, we’re going to regulate tech. But that means global platforms
collide with local regulators, with complexity, trade-offs and mutually
incompatible demands. This will probably be expensive.
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Future of #technology: why too much of a good thing can be a very bad thing #futurist gerd leonhard
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Facecrook: Dealing with a Global Menace | Matt Stoller
“Facebook is engaged in a giant crime spree to steal ad money. A battle over speech in Australia shows what top executives really think of the rule of law”. Why I quit Facebook 3 years ago
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Bezos, Musk, & Buffett See The World Differently, Because They See TIME Differently | Michael D. Simmons
Bezos believes Amazon is just getting started even though it’s nearly 30 years old. He refers to this mindset as the “Day One Philosophy”, and it’s baked into Amazon’s culture. Over the period of a day, taking “time out” to reflect, exercise, learn, rest, build relationships, and experiment are distractions. Over the period of a life-time, they are the best investments we can make.
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10 years to shape the future - My interview on 'Digital Future Society'
Some argue that technological development is like an evolutionary process in which humans and technology evolve in a symbiotic way, creating both new opportunities and new risks. We created technology, but how is technology recreating us?
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Artificial Intelligence And The End Of Work
“Once AI can deliver on this promise, there will be no practical or economic justification for humans to continue to be involved in many fields” Not sure I agree - but a 5* read!
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Why exponential technological change needs ‘exponential humanity‘ (Futurist Gerd: Technology, Business, and Digital Ethics in the 21st Century via Medium)
Machines can increasingly mimic the human brain and may indeed soon outpace it in certain respects such as calculations per second or storage capacity. Yet I believe that for the foreseeable future…
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Learn Anything. From Anyone. AI Talk with Mckay Wrigley
Mckay Wrigley is the Founder and CEO of LearnFromAnyone, a service being incubated that aims to leverage OpenAI’s GPT-3 API to build an AI teacher
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This is how fast the world will change in ten years | Michael Simmons in Accelerated Intelligence 5* read
20th century futurists predicted labor saving devices would make leisure abundant. Fast forward almost a century later. Things didn’t quite go as expected. “Rather than being bored to death, our actual challenge is to avoid anxiety attacks, psychotic breakdowns, heart attacks, and strokes resulting from being accelerated to death.”
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The Future: Open platforms, agile ecosystems and a focus on human benefits
This is one of the last live keynotes I gave in 2020 before Corona struck. I thought you’d enjoy it as it dives deep into the issues and opportunities for companies who embrace emerging technological trends like robotization, platformization, quantum computing, 5G, and more…
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Anything That Can Be Digitized /Automated Will Be - But anything that cannot will be even more valuable!
A quick dive into the future of work, the end of routine, and how to respond to the threat of becoming a ‘useless human’. Our ultimate job is … to be human…
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Examining the connection between Covid-19 and Inequality
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Mediated everything?
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PS. I am starting to get a lot more requests for gigs (even in-person) presentations. If you need a forward-thinking, inspirational keynote speaker for your next event or digital conference, I’d love to chat.
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