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May 27 · Issue #57 · 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 everyone! These past few weeks have been very busy here at ‘Team Gerd’, putting together a new portfolio of videos and showcases, for both my live keynotes and my YouTube channel which has been growing very quickly to over 36K subscribers. We have also launched a series of new showcases on my Vimeo channel (where you can also download most of them). Have a look and if you like my videos please share them widely and be sure to hit that notify-bell on Youtube:) Thanks so much for you support and your interest in my work. I just returned from beautiful Lanzarote / Canary Islands (see below) where we shot some pretty amazing footage for my new short film ‘The Good Future’. Stay tuned for some news on that (but I promise you’ll love it:) Be well and stay human! Zurich Switzerland
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My 'Keynote Television' setup; behind the scenes (sorry for the mess)
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On the set of 'The Good Future' in beautiful Lanzarote
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A compilation of some of my best Virtual Keynotes.
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Gerd.Live #3: Jennifer Morgan, CEO #greenpeace, in conversation with me
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Gerd.Live: A Futurist Conversation Series
We started this last year and will resume the series next month. In this show, I gather thinkers, influencers, and organisational leaders in fields like healthcare, tech, government, energy, sustainability, finance, biotechnology, education, climate change, and of course futurism to discuss humanity’s the big challenges affecting our world… Watch them all here. |
10 Essential Future Foresights for a Post Corona World: A Covid-19 Virtual Keynote by Gerd Leonhard
The future of technology: Too much of a good thing could a very bad thing…
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The great transformation: Our future. A virtual keynote for LinkedIn Latam
Someone who is 22 years old today is sure to think about the corona-crisis like my father thought about World War II…
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The Future of Europe: Technology, Society & Policy: A hard-hitting keynote on tech regulation, social media and democracy
Say goodbye to gradual change
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The word "NORMAL" has become meaningless
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Developing a Future-Ready Mindset: Leadership in uncertain times.
In this video, I explain why sustained success and innovation require a totally different way of future-oriented thinking and how individuals and organizations can achieve that. The Future is already here - we just need to pay attention!!
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The Impact of Covid19 on Business, Technology & Society
“The biggest danger, right now, is not that machines will take over, but that we will become too much like them!”
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This is very much on-topic these days as the EU is taking the lead on technology regulation. Watch the full “What to Expect for 2021” video series
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Is privacy dead? #Democracy threatened by algorithms? Future of Tech Regulation
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This is a very special video shot at my home in Zurich / Switzerland, in a very personal and more intimate setting. In a conversation with my producer I reflect on the themes of my next film; THE GOOD FUTURE.
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You can always count on people to do the right thing...
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A conversation: what is The Good Future and how to design it?
“You will not find happiness on the cloud, in an app, or on the screen”. Find more on “Happiness” in this article posted on my blog futuristgerd.com
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How did I become a Futurist - what does that actually mean?
In this short video I explain how I became a futurist, morphing from a musician and producer to internet entrepreneur to author, keynote speaker and futurist
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Those were the good old days when we could meet ‘in meat-space’ and share a coffee between meetings :) But you can see how “Science fiction is becoming a science fact”. And here are some good examples of it that don’t seem so far away, nowadays. |
A good example on the difference between humans and machines
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Xerocon London Keynote on Technology and Humanity: the next 10 years (the HUGE stage:)
“Technology is exponential, but humans are not”
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“This is our external brain… A second brain. And for some of our kids, it’s their first brain” - by now you guessed what that is. :) |
"In this world, there's also a side effect of what technology does"
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How The Future Works: Why your ultimate job is to be HUMAN. A film by Futurist/Author Gerd Leonhard
When Artificial Intelligence meets Human Intelligence it’s the end of routine as we know it.
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Digital transformation: are you ready for exponential change? Futurist Keynote Speaker Gerd Leonhard
This is by far my most popular film - Millions of views across all platforms
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Are you already over-connected or digitally obese? Has big tech made you a happier person, or just a busier one? |
Maybe we're the last generation of un-edited humans to inhabit this planet
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When I could shoot some films “inside of a machine”… This is a really exciting film I made for Telia Finland a few years ago - powerful visuals and super-nice production. |
At the Heart of Intelligence: Futurist Gerd Leonhard and Telia Finland film collaboration
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Join me for my keynote at the H.ECO Forum, June 10 in Seoul / Korea
I am delighted to be speaking (virtually of course) at the H. Eco Forum 2021 in Seoul / Korea. Please join me on June 10th for my keynote on Sustainable Futures and the Circular Economy. SIGN UP HERE.
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Join me June 4: International scientific futurological forum named after academician Sakharov
Along with Aubrey de Grey, Kirill Ignatyev, Sohail Inayatullah and many others. No need to sign up, btw, just go here and watch it live the same day.
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Futurist Gerd Leonhard: some cool gifs made by Team Gerd - Google Photos
I think you’ll like these:)
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TheGoodFuture Blog & Newsletter
What does a Good Future mean, and how will we design it? Feel free to subscribe here as well.
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Too much of a good thing can be a very bad thing: Technology’s Future; Futurist Gerd: Humanity, Technology, Business, and Digital Ethics in the 21st Century | May, 2021 | Medium
Gerd Leonhard, Futurist & Humanist. Zurich, Switzerland May 18 2021. Also published on Cognitive World and Futuristgerd.com Technology has undoubtedly been good to us. AI systems are now able to…
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By Bruce Schneier. Vastly comprehensive and powerful long read. “Artificial intelligence—AI—is an information technology. It consists of software. It runs on computers. And it is already deeply embedded into our social fabric, both in ways we understand and in ways we don’t. It will hack our society to a degree and effect unlike anything that’s come before. I mean this in two very different ways. One, AI systems will be used to hack us. And two, AI systems will themselves become hackers: finding vulnerabilities in all sorts of social, economic, and political systems, and then exploiting them at an unprecedented speed, scale, and scope. It’s not just a difference in degree; it’s a difference in kind…”
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My next short film #thegoodfuture in beautiful Lanzarote - release in late June
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We did have some issues with our AirBnB place in Lanzarote:) Just kidding.
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