Updated: video and PDFs from March 8, 23 livestream with Peter Leyden: the global paradigm shifts
The 12 paradigm shifts you need to understand, today. Here ...
The 12 paradigm shifts you need to understand, today. Here ...
From Doom & Gloom to Optimism & Hope, by William ...
An important message on the current and future state of affairs, by Futurist Gerd Leonhard (Text only)
An important message on the current and future state of affairs, by Futurist Gerd Leonhard
Futurist Gerd Leonhard, was one of the futurist speakers featured, talking about digital humanism and how to create a good future.
The inaugural session for the Fork Talks took off with me and Glen Heimstra as hosts, featuring presentations by Brenda Cooper, Philip Kotler, David Houle and Bronwyn Williams.
In the video I explore some themes ahead of my next film (which will be shot in the beautiful Lanzarote in May this year, see below), including what a 'Good Future' could look like, and how we could realize it, touching on climate change, capitalism and my 'People, Planet, Purpose and Prosperity' memes.
As a Helmut Schmidt (German Chancellor, RiP) famously said — ...
What happens when 3 senior futurists get together and talk about their combined 75 years of experience, discuss how Covid-19 is changing their lives and their roles, and ponder what they see coming towards us in the next 5-10 years? Find out more in this new episode of Gerd.Live
"The best prophet, Thomas Hobbes once wrote, is the best guesser. That would seem to be the last word on our capacity to predict the future: We can’t. But it is a truth humans have never been able to accept. People facing immediate danger want to hear an authoritative voice they can draw assurance from; they want to be told what will occur, how they should prepare, and that all will be well. We are not well designed, it seems, to live in uncertainty. Rousseau exaggerated only slightly when he said that when things are truly important, we prefer to be wrong than to believe nothing at all"
A crisis we didn’t waste. How covid19 changed our world: Futurist Gerd Leonhard looks back from December 2020
People learn how to be brave, said Aristotle, by doing brave things. So, too, with honesty, justice, loyalty, caring, listening, and counselling
“This explosion of connectivity brings new possibilities, but also economic and social vulnerabilities. The level of coordination and coding required to stitch the Internet of Things together is orders of magnitude more complicated than any hist...
So very true. He's a major influence on my work.