New Podcast: riveting audio conversation with Futurists Calum Chace and Gerd Leonhard: AI, the Singularity, the Future of Humans and Machines
Calum Chace and me don't agree on many issues – ...
04
May 2018
New short film: Futurist Gerd Leonhard on the Internet of Things – a new Meta-Intelligence and the Global Brain
Just went live on my Youtube channel – we have ...
17
Apr 2018
New keynote video: Technology and Humanity – what’s our future? Futurist Gerd Leonhard at Sogeti Digital Happiness event, Brussels Nov 2017
Nice one … imho:) At Sogeti Executive Summit 2017: ‘In ...
24
Jan 2018
Futurist Gerd Leonhard Talk at Dutch Future Society: technology and humanity, the next 10 years (NEW VIDEO, AUDIO)
That was a great event! Here is my slide-deck as ...
10
Jan 2018
New video: artificial intelligence and the future of business and humanity. Gerd Leonhard’s Spark 2017 keynote at Capgemini 2017 CXO Forum, Pebble Beach CA
Here is the video of my entire keynote. You can ...
29
Nov 2017
Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s presentation at the NASSCOM BPM Strategy Summit in Bengaluru, India: PDF and video
More details on the event, also here Nasscom BPM Bangalore Gerd ...
13
Oct 2017
New video: the best moments from Gerd Leonhard’s 2017 keynotes and presentations, all in one clip (AI, TechvsHuman, Digital Transformation ++)
I am delighted to announce the publication of a new ...
01
Oct 2017
Why the Singularity is certain to happen in my own lifetime, and how it matters (Futurist/Humanist Gerd Leonhard)
I recently came to an important realisation: I will most ...
11
Aug 2017
Human ingenuity will be the genesis for IoT prosperity: thoughtful piece by Jeanne Beliveau-Dunne (Cisco)
We explored this topic in depth at the recent IoT World Forum in London, where renowned futurist Gerd Leonhard provided us a stunning window into the ethics of IoT and the critical role of human ingenuity in designing and shepherding its outcomes. (Watch the replay of Gerd’s keynote, moderated by Cisco’s CMO, Karen Walker: “Beyond Business: A Holistic View of the Societal and Human Impact of IoT.”)
As the IoT World Forum team put its agenda together for an influential community of C-suite executives in London, there was a realization that we needed to address this topic, as provocative (and sobering) as it might be. We recognized that we had to acknowledge the “elephant in the room”: that we are in unchartered territory, as we enter into this new era of exponential change together. When we think about what the implications are of a rapid surge in IoT innovation, we must all collectively consider the potential effects on the geopolitical and global economic landscape (in both advanced and developing nations); on global challenges such as wealth inequality, aging populations, healthcare, and the environment; and on the global workforce. Of course, no one has all the answers, but we must be bold in exploring these issues as a global business community. I will explore this in more depth in my next blog, but I will say that we know we need a global unified approach to succeed. No one can go it alone, and a “head in the sand” mentality is not an option.”
Human ingenuity will be the genesis for IoT prosperity
https://www.cio.com/article/3212868/digital-transformation/human-ingenuity-and-iot-prosperity.html
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03
Aug 2017
Video and slides from my keynote at The Economist Innovation Forum 2017 in Berlin: Technology, Business, Digital Ethics (updated)
Here is the deck, below (PDF 20MB), More about the ...
29
Jun 2017
“Google, not GCHQ, is the truly chilling spy network” says John Naughton (The Guardian)
He was right. “Surveillance”, as the security expert Bruce Schneier has observed, is the business model of the internet and that is true of both the public and private sectors. Given how central the network has become to our lives, that means our societies have embarked on the greatest uncontrolled experiment in history. Without really thinking about it, we have subjected ourselves to relentless, intrusive, comprehensive surveillance of all our activities and much of our most intimate actions and thoughts. And we have no idea what the long-term implications of this will be for our societies – or for us"
Google, not GCHQ, is the truly chilling spy network | John Naughton
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/18/google-not-gchq--truly-chilling-spy-network
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19
Jun 2017
Beyond business as usual: the Internet of Things, AI, Technology vs Humanity? Full-length video of my keynote at IoT World Forum in London
Thanks to the Internet Talent Consortium and Cisco for making ...
11
Jun 2017
Shared keynote presentation: AI, thinking machines and the future of humanity (Futurist Gerd)
I am trying out a new feature of Apple Keynote ...
15
Apr 2017
The Internet of Things – the challenges of building a new Meta-Intelligence (new Gif)
Just starting working on some more IoT-related keynotes … here ...
06
Apr 2017
Video and slide-deck from my DOTS2017 Prague keynote: digital transformation, humanity and technology – the future (updated)
This was a really great event here in Prague: DOTS 2017. ...
28
Mar 2017
Are you ready to be microchipped? A short film presented by TFA Studio and FuturistGerd
Think about that. Download a high res MP4 version here ...
18
Mar 2017
Futurist Gerd Leonhard: Open letter to the Partnership on AI (take 2)
When machines have an IQ of 50,000, what happens to ...