Welcome to 2020! I know it has been a while that you heard from me - sorry about that:) Here are som
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January 8 · Issue #32 · 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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Welcome to 2020! I know it has been a while that you heard from me - sorry about that:) Here are some of my latest updates. Enjoy! Kind regards from Zurich PS: you are receiving this email because you signed up for my newsletter - please use the unsubscribe link below to opt-out if desired:) PS2: if you reply to this email please change the header so I can see it better
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I just released my new film ‘How the Future Works’, on the future of work, jobs, education and training. I am really excited about it, and this short film has already reached almost 15K views on Youtube . I’d love your feedback! You can download it via the link above, as well:) Here are some of the key messages:
- Anything that can be automated, digitized or virtualized will be
- When artificial intelligence (AI) meets human intelligence (HI), it’s the end of routine work as we know it (but it’s not the end of human work)
- Whatever is easy for a computer is hard for humans, and vice versa (Moravec) – and this will remain true for the foreseeable future
- There is life beyond automation and robotization: a new age of human-only work is beginning - we just need to be ready
- Our ultimate job is… to be human: The more we digitize our world, the more human we can and we must become
The film’s page is here. Go!
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How The Future Works: Why your ultimate job is to be HUMAN. A film by Futurist/Author Gerd Leonhard
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» How will we remain USEFUL HUMANS? A longer - but worthy - post on the future of work, jobs and education
» How will we remain USEFUL HUMANS? Are you also experiencing a kind of Future Shock when thinking about where your job might be going, or when at looking at the best choices for your kids’ education? No doubt you keep hearing that over 50% of all our jobs…
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Goodbye to replication, hello to originality. Efficiency is for robots.
I wrote this on Medium in 2017 but it’s still true:)
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» ‘Business Rewired’ – a new report on the future of work (my collaboration with XERO)
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Here is a nice short video interview with my key messages for 2020
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Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘Vitruvian Man’ depicted the ideal proportions of the human body - maybe now we need a ‘neoluvian man’ depicting the future relationship of humans and technology?
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“Technology has replaced the once-mighty church and currently dominates our personal as well as professional lives. A few global behemoths - the churches of dataism - now control how we communicate and connect, search, buy and sell, entertain and learn. And what was once used to connect us (so-called social media) is now dividing and manipulating us, catapulting us towards an algorithmic society. But we are also witnessing the rebirth of humanity just as it once reawakened in Italy, and we may already have reached ‘Peak Tech Worship’ in 2019…The debates about ‘digital pollution’, data sovereignty, abusive data-mining, social media’s manipulation of the democratic process, and algorithmic bias are growing louder… Today, technology has been enshrined and even deified, and data is indeed the new oil. Yet most technology will soon become an abundant commodity, and humanness will be a sought-after scarcity… Read more.
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»More on the New Renaissance
» Announcing an important new 2020 speaking topic: the new Human Renaissance! What if the best human era were yet to come? What if instead of even more ‘digital transformation’ - invariably bringing the replacement of us humans with algorithms and bots - we were to pursue…
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Tacit knowledge, robots & AI – good read via AEON
A great deal turns on the status of tacit knowledge. On this much the champions of a machine learning-powered revival of command economics and their critics agree. Tacit knowledge is the kind of cognition we refer to when we say that we know more than we can tell. How do you ride a bike? No one can say with any precision…
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» Watch my keynote at SIBOS Innotribe 2019 (and my debate with Brad Templeton *Technologist vs Humanist)
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» 2020 predictions about automation and the future of work (Forrester)
» Over 1 million knowledge-work jobs will be replaced in 2020 by software robotics, RPA, virtual agents and chatbots, and machine-learning-based decision management. So predicts research firm Forrester in a new report published today, “Predictions 2020: Automation.” It also estimates that 331,500 net jobs will be…
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25 Ideas That Will Shape the 2020s: Economy, Markets, Tech, Health, A.I., Work, Society and More | Fortune
Fortune asked 25 of the sharpest minds to weigh in on the epic, disruptive, thrilling, terrifying, and fascinating ideas that will mold the next decade…
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“In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best” ( Moravec paradox)
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» Rio de Janeiro Feb 14 2020: Ethics and the Future of Technology #digitalethics
» Meet me in Rio de Janeiro Feb 14 2020: Ethics and the Future of Technology #digitalethics - Um debate relevante: Ética e a Tecnologia com o futurista global mais influente do momento!
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Sofia Bulgaria Feb 20, Innovation Explorer
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GESS Dubai Education Conference Feb 25
The meeting place for educators to further their knowledge with our inspirational talks and dynamic, hands-on conference content and workshops.
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Arch Summit 2020, April 1 in Luxembourg
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» Or check out my Public Calendar
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And on the note of traveling-too-much, I recently announced the mandatory carbon-offsetting for all my flights to speakings (which is not new, but has become my official policy now). And I’m on the train a lot more now, too:)
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And finally, for those of you that are wondering what I really do
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