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March 9 · Issue #53 · 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! First, some great news to share! Thanks to popular demand, my book Technology vs Humanity: The Coming Clash Between Man and Machine which readers have taken to calling “A Welcome Rebuttal Of The Hype From The Singularity Crowd,” is now available both as an audiobook (in EN, ES, PT). We have also launched a free podcast-version in English, Spanish, and Portuguese on all major audiobook and podcasting platforms like Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Play, etc… (only the first 3 chapters of the book are available on this free podcast). If the above links don’t work, yet, just search for “Gerd Leonhard” in your audiobook or podcast player of choice. Alternatively, you can buy it directly from my author store here or on any audiobook platform, such as Audible. So, if you are interested in diving into the 10 world-altering, technological and societal megashifts like AI, automation, IoT and the myriad of other waves poised to transform life as we know it, check out the book today and find out why it has over one hundred 4.2 star reviews on Amazon and another 237 ratings on Goodreads. Here’s the book website.
I hope you enjoy what I sought to be a RESET BUTTON for a more human-centric future and would love to hear what you think! Now, on to my usual best snippets and finds from the past week. Gerd
PS. I recently reviewed an in-depth report on the future of exponential tech investing (the annual ARK Investments Big Ideas Report), here : this one is a must read!
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Book recommendation of the week: Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
“Rebecca Henderson debunks prevailing orthodoxy with a new intellectual foundation and a practical pathway forward for a system that has lost its moral and ethical foundation. Free market capitalism is one of humanity’s greatest inventions and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. But this success has been costly. Capitalism is on the verge of destroying the planet and destabilizing society as wealth rushes to the top…” See what other books I am currently reading, here.
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Covid-19 has transformed the welfare state. Which changes will endure? | The Economist
Crises, such as wars or economic collapse, reveal societies’ strengths and weaknesses, and change thinking about how they can and should be organised. The pandemic has forced a re-evaluation of the social contract, in particular how risk should be divided among individuals, employers and the state.
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The COVID Bubble | by Nouriel Roubini - Project Syndicate
With equity markets reaching new heights at a time of rising income and wealth inequality, it should be obvious that today’s market mania will end in tears, reproducing the economic injustices of the 2008 crash. For all of the talk of supporting households, it is Main Street that will suffer most when the music stops. *On that note, here is a what I said about the future of the music industry… 13 years ago:)
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From above: ARK Investments Big Ideas Report 2021 - Plus my highlights and comments on AI, DL,VR, Battery Tech and more...
ARK Investments has shared yet another MUST READ analysis of what’s hot this year - really good stuff. Get the whole thing here plus my thoughts and insights into the the tech and industry trends that will drive the future of investing, at least for 2021.
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Why a more equal world would be easier to decarbonise
Demand would shift from luxuries to necessities.
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The Rise of ESG Investing
A few good links via GerdFeed
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I Will Not Pass the Evolutionary Torch To My Robot Successor by Douglas Rushkoff
The transhumanist movement is less a theory about the advancement of humanity than a simple evacuation plan. Techno-utopians like to think of themselves as orchestrating a complete break from civilization — a leap into outer space, cyberspace, machine consciousness, or artificial life. But their ideas just extend our same blind addiction to consumption, destruction, progress, and colonization. Cyber-wettiko.
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Shared (un)Realities – On my Om
Much of today’s reality takes its cues from what we dubiously dubbed “reality” television. We all know that the Kardashians — like all reality show characters — are not really real, at least not as we know them. The question is: what do these “Shared (un)Realities mean for the future of society?
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Study: Employment rose among those in free money experiment
After getting $500 per month for two years without rules on how to spend it, 125 people in California paid off debt, got full-time jobs and reported lower rates of anxiety and depression, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Here's my short film on the future of work, artificial intelligence & automation: How the Future Works
“The next 20 years will bring more change than the previous 300 years: Science fiction is becoming science fact. Anything that can be automated, digitized or virtualized …will be. When artificial intelligence meets human intelligence, it’s the end of routine work as we know it. Whatever is easy for a computer is hard for humans, and vice versa – and this will remain true for the foreseeable future"
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Mars Is a Hellhole - The Atlantic
Musk, by contrast, is encouraging a feeling of entitlement to the cosmos—that we can and must colonize space, regardless of who or what might be there, all for a long-shot chance at security.
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Moore’s Law Isn’t Dead: It’s Wrong - Long Live Wright’s Law
If Moore’s Law is flawed, what is the best way to forecast a technology cost decline? Enter Wright’s Law, which forecasts cost as a function of production.
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No car? No problem!
Germany’s capital, Berlin, is planning a huge innovation: to eliminate private automobiles. Not by force, but by providing alternative mobility solutions such that people don’t want or need cars. Berlin’s public transport authority BVG is a key player.
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The AI Index Report – Artificial Intelligence Index
Stanford’s yearly report on the state of the AII industry and how Covid-19 is projected to influence AI/ML throughout 2021.
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And finally, for my German-speaking followers here's a long-awaited new keynote video in German: Hamburger IT Strategie Tage '21 : Das Future Mindset
Die Zukunft ist kein Zeitraum mehr - sie ist eine DENKWEISE. Wir müssen jetzt sowohl das ‘Heute’ gut managen aber gleichzeitig auch immer bereits ein Bein in…
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Tech vs. Humanity: Ebook & Audiobook | English
Technology vs. Humanity: The Coming Clash Between Man and Machine by Gerd Leonhard 4.2 stars on Amazon, 237 ratings on Goodreads.
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My brand-new Future of Work Pyramid: Our Ultimate Job is to BE HUMAN
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OMG here's what happened to my office in 2020:)
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