Today is a big day! Announcing The Good Future Project: Gerd Leonhard, Futurist and Founder
The Good Future Project: we have 10 years to make it happen!
The Good Future Project: we have 10 years to make it happen!
I am here to tell the story of The Good Future. I believe in a future where the power of human ingenuity, science and technology solves our biggest problems. I also believe that humans are basically kind and capable of collaboration (read 'human kind' by Rutger Bregman! )
Demasiado de algo bueno puede ser muy malo: El futuro de la tecnología. Por qué debemos actuar ahora para garantizar que el progreso tecnológico exponencial siga siendo un beneficio para la humanidad y el planeta
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 future, we may look back at 2020 as the year we decided to keep driving off the climate cliff–or to take the last exit. Taking the threat seriously would mean using the opportunity presented by this crisis to spend on solar panels and wind farms, push companies being bailed out to cut emissions and foster greener forms of transport in cities. If we instead choose to fund new coal-fired power plants and oil wells and thoughtlessly fire up factories to urge growth, we will lock in a pathway toward climate catastrophe. There’s a divide about which way to go.
The Fork In The Road Project is growing quickly. We are now starting to create events that will further expand our audience, and as one of the initiators of this project, I am happy to announce our first ForkTalk!
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.
Covid-19 Has Accelerated the Demise of Traditional Capitalism 2019 was a year of great prosperity and innovation, with stock markets booming, democracy thriving (well, maybe not quite in the US;), and unemployment at near record lows throughout much of the developed world. But then, Covid-19 struck and changed everything as half the world went into lock-down, economies and supply chains ground to a halt, unemployment skyrocketed, and the world suffered its greatest health/humanitarian crisis since World War II.
Today, I am delighted to invite all interested readers, friends, ...
2020 was a disruptive and massively confusing year for everyone, personally, and for every business and every organization, as well. 2021 will hopefully see a rebound of a sort - yet I think we are not going back to 'normal', ever.