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The Metaverse: Good or Evil? Introducing a brand-new and exciting speaker package with Futurists Calum Chace and Gerd Leonhard
calum chace and gerd leonhard debate the metaverse
What You Need to Know Episode #3: Why we should be optimistic about the future. New video by futurist Gerd Leonhard.
What kind of future do we want for our children? What kind of ancestor will we be? So you may ask: How do we maintain HOPE and a positive outlook in a world that (right now, in August 2022) seems to go from bad to worse - climate emergency, war, inflation, food crises, energy crises, fake news, disinformation and the global decline of democracy. Yet, riffing off Kevin Kelly's protopia I derive hope from the fact that while our problems seem to be increasing, our capacity to deal with them is increasing even faster.
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Aug 2022
Special Podcast: Rebalancing Our World – A Call to the Purpose Generation. Estoril Conferences 2022 Panel Preview with Gerd Leonhard
For the Estoril Conferences perspective, it’s important to position the main theme this year Rebalancing Our World: A Call to The Purpose Generation and topics we are bringing for this year agenda For Planet, For People, For Peace. Gerd Leonhard will be connected in the People agenda in the panel debate on What To Do Now That We Have The Power To Reach Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere? where we want to engage in a conversation focused on how to bring purpose for technology design and use it for the good, what do we need to do to change in the next 10 years and protect our species, what future do we want for the next generations (our sons), challenges with regard to ethical issues ranging from privacy concerns to cybercrime, to bring more humane future leaders and a more peaceful future.
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Aug 2022
New video: Hope and Optimism for The Good Future? GerdTalks #12 with Aline Frankfort
This was a super-special Gerdtalks show with Aline Frankfort, Shapership Leader, Visiting Professor, Club Of Rome Member: Why there is hope for the future.
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Aug 2022
The Pandemic Year Marked a Turning Point in Climate Change. Must-read by David Wallace-Wells, NY Magazine (2021)
All year, a planet transformed by the burning of carbon discharged what would have once been called portents of apocalypse. The people of that planet, as a whole, didn’t take much notice — distracted by the pandemic and trained, both by the accumulating toll of recent disasters and the ever-rising volume of climate alarm, to see what might once have looked like brutal ruptures in lived reality instead as logical developments in a known pattern.
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Jul 2022
As the Planet Cooks, Climate Stalls as a Political Issue (great NYT read)
“People are exhausted by the pandemic, they’re terribly disillusioned by the government,” said Anusha Narayanan, climate campaign director for Greenpeace USA, the environmental group known for its guerrilla tactics but now struggling to mobilize supporters. She added: “People see climate as a tomorrow problem. We have to make them see it’s not a tomorrow problem.”
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Jul 2022
Must-watch video: Futurist Gerd Leonhard Explains: Nature Deficit Disorder & Digital Obesity
Many people have asked me to explain what nature deficit disorder is, and what I mean when I speak about digital obesity. So I made this short video!
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Jul 2022
Join me for Gerdtalks #12 on August 1st: Why there is hope, and how The Good Future is possible.
A special Gerdtalks show with Aline Frankfort, Shapership Leader, Visiting Professor, Club Of Rome Member: Why there is hope for the future!
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Jul 2022
New: Futurist Friday Podcast Interview with Gerd Leonhard: TheGoodFuture?
In this interview, Gerd Leonhard points out that “the future is already here, we just haven’t paid enough attention to it.” He talks about how technology is making us superhuman, that we are in the biggest shift in history as far as energy and climate are concerned, and that machines and artificial intelligence are starting to emulate humanity.
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Jul 2022
New Interview with Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s comments on Digital Obesity
Swiss-German futurist and writer Gerd Leonhard drew attention to the vital risks of "digital obesity" in a forum organized by TedMEM Ankara, Turkey.
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Jun 2022
Beyond Knowledge and Global Consciousness? Here are the videos from Gerdtalks #11
This is a special Gerd Talks show with guest Bill Halal (GWU, Techcast, Author) on the coming era of Global Consciousness and Bill's latest book "Beyond Knowledge".
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Jun 2022
The World beyond Covid-19: What’s ahead for People, Consumers, Retail and E-Commerce
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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Jun 2022
The Next 10 Years: Rethinking Work and Revolutionising Education (Gerd Leonhard’s keynote in Riga)
This is probably my most comprehensive talk on the future of education, training and work, to-date. This video is my talk at the "Steering Education - From Imagination to Impact" Conference in Riga/Latvia, on June 3, 2022.
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Jun 2022
Join me for Gerdtalks #11 June 20th: Beyond Knowledge. A new era of global consciousness?
A special GerdTalks show with guest Bill Halal (GWU, Techcast, Author) on the coming era of Global Consciousness, moving beyond knowledge.
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Jun 2022
New Realities: Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality – and the Metaverse: Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s Newest Keynote Topic
I have been very busy creating a new talk on ...
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May 2022
Join me for GerdTalks#9 May 26 6pm CET. New Realities: AR, MR, VR and the Metaverse.
In this episode of GerdTalks, I will address both the positive i.e. the possibly 'heavenly' aspects of this development as well as the negative i.e. more 'hellish' trappings that may occur if we aren't careful (see the current social media debates on disinformation), and will outline what it all means for marketers, communications, e-commerce, and business as well as life in general, in the next 5-7 years. I examine the concept of the Metaverse from a variety of angles, and will make some recommendations on how to get involved (or not).
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May 2022
Why inequality is corroding democracy – a short video by Futurist Gerd Leonhard (New WHY series)
Inequality is a key reason why people lose faith in democracy.
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May 2022
Why ‘Big Green’ is inevitable (New Futurist Gerd Video)
In this excerpt from my GerdTalks http://www.gerdtalks.com show on why and how GREEN IS THE NEW DIGITAL, I comment on the recent developments in regards to meat-from-the-lab aka cultured meat and vegan meat substitutes, which look set to become the new normal in the next few years.
