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June 18 · Issue #69 · View online
These are the best links and must-reads aggregated by Gerd Leonhard, Futurist & Humanist, Keynote Speaker, Author of 'Technology vs Humanity', Film-Maker (The Good Future) and CEO of The Futures Agency in Zürich / Switzerland.
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Greetings everyone, I hope you are well and heading into a beautiful summer. Here are my latest finds, shares and links, and some highlights from my recent work. And don’t forget: Our attitude contains our future! Cheers from Zurich Gerd Leonhard
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💡A very special edition of my new live-stream show: The Future of Work... Beyond Knowledge? A shift towards consciousness? With special guest Bill Halal
June 20th 6pm CET | 12 noon EST | 9am PST | 930 pm IST: Beyond Knowledge. A new era of global consciousness? - This will be a very special GerdTalks show with my guest Bill Halal (GWU Professor Emeritus, Techcast, Author) on the coming era of Global Consciousness, and the concept of human work moving beyond knowledge. You can join via LinkedIn or via Youtube (hit the bell!). You can also watch this show live on my website. Yes, sure it’s free! SIGN-UP via eventbrite (optional)
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More about GerdTalks (new microsite)
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5* read on the crypto- crisis: Trustless (ProfG)
Scott Galloway on the current crypto-currency crisis: trustless systems are an illusion (good stuff)
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🦾Kim Stanley Robinson & Cory Doctorow On Raising Kids in a Climate Crisis
Kim Stanley Robinson, author of ‘The Ministry for the Future,’ talks with Cory Doctorow about climate change, hope, and raising a kid in a climate crisis. My 2 fav authors! 5*
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Can (SHOULD?) humanity leave nature behind? - BBC Future
In the face of environmental collapse, humanity may need to turn to artificial replacements for nature – how might we avoid the most dystopian of these futures?
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Carl Sagan Predicted The Mess 2021 Would Be 25 years Ago: "A Celebration of Ignorance"
Astrophysicist and author Carl Sagan managed to predict a lot of the things the challenges America faces in the year 2021 all the way back in 1995 … gotta love the tagline!
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👀 The Next 10 Years: Rethinking Work and Revolutionising Education: my keynote in Riga 👀
» The Next 10 Years: Rethinking Work and Revolutionising Education. Imho, one of my best talks on the future of education & work (despite the fact that I had a pretty nasty cold that week and my voice is kinda funky::) Direct YT link.
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The Future of Education: some good links
…using the pretty cool padlet app to share my latest education-related content
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#Metaverse | Walmart VR Virtual Shopping Experience SXSW
This is how Walmart envisions Shopping in the #Metaverse. Thoughts? Not my cup of tea…. but hey… have a look
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Take a look inside China's 'Westworld' — a museum that's making customizable humanoid robots with 'goosebumps' and 'veins'
The EX Future and Science Museum in Dalian, China, features an array of customizable robots made to look “alive” — down to the lines on their palms.
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Metaverse...or Metaperverse?
People seem to love this new meme:)) The Metaverse could be heaven for business, commerce, big tech and big state, but hell for humans and society. It could turn out to be ‘everything we’ve ever dreamed of but little of what we really need’.
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#Metaverse or MetaPERverse? Is this the Future of Mobile #SocialMedia?
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The Great Reduction: my take on virtual reality, sims and the Metaverse
» The Great Reduction: Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s take on virtual reality, sims and the Metaverse - Post summary: The so-called metaverse is the latest and the boldest attempt to replace human relationships and experiences with highly monetizable simulations, reducing complex human life to data feeds, fancy graphics and AI-fuelled convenience: Consensual hallucinations sold as ‘human empowerment’. We should be careful what…
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VR and AR will make a ton of money - but will it be GOOD for Humans?
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8 Ways Social Media Distorts our Realities
Via the newsletter of the Center for Humane Technology “Social media doesn’t simply reflect society; it shapes society. The world we see through social media is distorted, like looking into a funhouse mirror. These distortions are negative externalities of an advertising-driven, engagement-maximizing business model, which affects people and relationships in myriad ways…”
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How Harmful Is Social Media? | The New Yorker
There’s a general sense that it’s bad for society—which may be right. But studies offer surprisingly few easy answers….
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The Last Days of Myspace. Social networks are prone to sudden collapses...by Cory Doctorow
“I hated Facebook from the start and couldn’t wait for it to die. That was a pretty reasonable thing to expect. After all, I’d watched social networks from SixDegrees on crash and burn as the network…”
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How to Fix Social Media — The New Atlantis (Nicholas Carr)
Will Elon make a difference? I kinda doubt it
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My take: Too much of a good thing can be a very bad thing: Technology’s Future is our choice
Why we must act now to ensure that exponential technological progress remains a benefit for humanity and the planet
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💥 Must-read, now: The Ministry for the Future: Kim Stanley Robinson, aka KSR
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The Carbon Coin Concept, riffing off KSR
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Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism Mazzucato, Mariana (just reading this book again, too)
Here’s a woman with a powerful mission!
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Beyond Knowledge: How Technology Is Driving an Age of Consciousness -Halal, William
Meet Bill on my show on Monday - he’ll talk about his book as well.
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Recommended Books: My complete list
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DALL·E 2
DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.
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Artificial Intelligence Creates STUNNING Images!! (Dall-e 2)
Playing with Dall-e 2 Open ai to generate images that do not exist in real life…
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AI’s Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Real - IEEE Spectrum
IEEE Spectrum spoke to Kai-Fu Lee about his book AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future, focusing on the last few chapters that take on the big issues of job displacement, the need for new economic models, and the search for meaning and happiness in an age of abundance.
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The AI Index Report – Artificial Intelligence Index
The AI Index is an independent initiative at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), led by the AI Index Steering Committee, an interdisciplinary group of experts from across academia and industry. The annual report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence, enabling decision-makers to take meaningful action to advance AI responsibly and ethically with humans in mind..
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AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future: Lee, Kai-Fu, Qiufan, Chen
Loved this book. Made me think.
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Why and how Green is the new Digital: GerdTalks#6
The Sustainability Revolution will be even bigger - and vastly more existential - than the digital revolution. In this live-stream session (GerdTalks episode…
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Related meme: #PeoplePlanetPurposeProsperity
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🌏 Why ‘Big Green’ is inevitable (video)
» Why ‘Big Green’ is inevitable ; Cultured meat, 3D printed pizza and beyond. This is #9 in my new WHY series launched in March 2022.
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Could a ‘Carbon Coin’ Save the Planet? - WSJ
Australian civil engineer Delton Chen explains his idea for a new currency, portrayed in Kim Stanley Robinson’s climate-catastrophe novel.
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At Estoril Conferences - A Future of Hope: Sept 1/2 PT
Join me Sept ½ in Estoril / Portugal - this is a really promising event!
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Live on Stage in 2022: Some Impressions
So happy to be back to IRL!
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Listen to my keynotes: Audio-only versions... on Spotify and iTunes etc
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Should humanity leave nature behind? (Must-Read via BBC.com, my high-lights)
“In the face of environmental collapse, humanity may need to turn to artificial replacements for nature – how might we avoid the most dystopian of these futures? Researcher Lauren Holt makes the case for a broader form of “offsetting” to help balance technology with natural systems”
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New Keynote: The World beyond Covid-19: What’s ahead for People, Consumers, Retail and E-Commerce
In this keynote for Calik Denim I touch on many fashion & apparel industry-related topics such as sustainability and the Experience Economy, and of course on my key topic “The Good Future” and explain what the next 10 years are likely to bring…
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🎯 Gerd Leonhard interview with Anders Sorman-Nilsson: The ‘2nd Renaissance’ (vodcast)
I had a great conversation with fellow futurist Anders Sorman-Nilsson for his ‘2nd Renaissance’ vodcast. You can it check out here (video, as below), or on Spotify (audio). We investigated ‘The Good Future’, why ‘Green is the New Digital’ and discussed why pandemic was/is a test run for climate change and how to re-design capitalism […]
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The cathedral of computation
“But just as the machine metaphor gives us a distorted view of automated manufacture as prime mover, so the algorithmic metaphor gives us a distorted, theological view of computational action.”
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Cleaning up airline travel?
“Compared to a status-quo, do-nothing pathway, the most aggressive carbon-reduction scenario leads to a 7% drop in passenger traffic and a 22% increase in ticket prices by 2050, driven by a 70%…”
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EO Wilson 'Rewilding'
“The sociobiologist E O Wilson suggested, or rather implored, for half the world to be rewilded. This was framed as being essential for human survival, but this 50:50 split appears to me to have a…”
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This avocado armchair could be the future of AI | MIT Technology Review
I sure want one of these for my office!
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'The Real Toy Story' - A Look Inside the Chinese Factories That Make Christmas Toys
‘The Real Toy Story’ – A Look Inside the Chinese Factories That Make Christmas Toys. Automation….? Nope. Michael’s website with all the pics. *is that different today - this story is 7 years old I believe — wonder what has changed.
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Live long and prosper! Cheers from Zurich
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My #1 topic: The Good Future
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