Can a frequent flyer tax could solve aviation’s carbon challenge?
“The global aviation industry is responsible for about 2.5 per ...
Talking Across Differences: A Paradigm for Raising Consciousness. Guest post by Bill Halal
By William E. Halal, The TechCast Project, George Washington University This ...
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Oct 2022
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!
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Oct 2022
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
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Oct 2022
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 Podcast: Speaking across differences – Futurists Bill Halal and Gerd Leonhard
gerd leonhard and bill halal podcast on speaking across differences
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Aug 2022
Is Degrowth a useful approach to combat global warming and for designing “The Good Future”?
One could argue (and many have) that the solution to ...
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Jul 2022
The Future of Education: STEM & HECI (Humanity, Ethics, Creativity, Imagination). A short explanation (video)
The end of routine is coming, but it's NOT the end of human work. If we focus on what only humans can do - the human-only skills, traits and mindsets.
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Jul 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
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
Should we detach ourselves from nature? Can humanity leave nature behind? (Must-Read via BBC.com)
“In the face of environmental collapse, humanity may need to ...
