I am really excited to share this amazing pilot episode for a new series I started to work on 8 weeks ago, called Gerd.Live. Each episode will feature uniquely interesting people, in conversation with me (trying to be interesting, as well), interspersed with social media quotes, short video clips, motion-design graphics and illustrations and more fancy stuff like that. This one is with @Azeem

I am working on a new online-TV-show and a virtual keynote series (and possibly even a new book … arghhh) presenting 10 key future observations & foresights on what I now call the Great Transformation (with/post-corona).  I want to try some of my new memes with a live audience, hence this free virtual keynote (yes… you’ll be the guinea-pigs, kinda). But: I will also showcase a brand-new way of presenting online, using some pretty cool new video tools and virtual background ideas - this will be a kind of World-Premiere with all my cool new gear:)

This will be different than any online gig you’ve seen (and yes, it’s free)

» The future of keynote speaking? A short visual parody - The homemade scenario The ‘really careful’ scenario The default scenario The ‘speaking to a tiny green dot’ scenario…

Have a look at my new virtual keynote page:)) However, I’m also kinda pining to get back on the road (albeit not expecting that to happen in any large way until 2021… and probably never again like it was done before)

Sexta Feira, 19/06, o renomado futurista Gerd Leonhard estará no Brazil Futures Summit, promovido pela W Futurismo com o tema Megatrends e o mundo a partir…

THE FUTURE. Are you excited, or are you worried? The next 20 years will bring more change than the previous 300 years. Technology is rebooting the very idea of work, how we work, when we work, where we work, and WHY we work.  Computers are no longer stupid; they’re watching, they’re listening, they’re speaking, they’re learning… Science fiction is becoming science fact, and the End of Routine work is only one of the outcomes. How much of YOUR work is routine? You know… the searching, invoicing, filing, organizing, checking, updating?

My company, The Futures Agency, based in Zürich / Switzerland, is a unique, global organisation designed to help our clients discover, understand and create their preferred future. We just relaunched our website featuring 50+ fellow Futurists that are focusing on virtual keynotes. Check it out. When there’s no fish…mend the net!

This snazzy tumblr micro-site has now been upgraded - it shows snippets from all the stuff that I ACTUALLY read and that I find meaningful. Yes, it’s a firehose… but I know you’ll enjoy it. You can also subscribe via email. It’s constantly updating (using some cool IFTTT tools:)

yes… opinions…

Primal instincts often drive our desire to spend inordinate amounts of screen time poring over grim news, and social-media platforms are designed to keep us hooked.

Endlessly binging on bad news in your social feeds is unhealthy. But it’s become a galvanizing force for protests against police brutality.