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Do we need to act to preempt a Generative AI Monopoly? (must read via Diane Coyle, PS)
read more via Project Syndicate “ChatGPT, the new artificial intelligence ...
Join Gerd Leonhard for Gerdtalks #3: Why Facebook / Meta must be dismantled, how to reboot social media: Feb 21!
Futurist Gerd Leonhard has kicked off this year with a ...
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Feb 2022
Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s take on the Metaverse / Metaperverse (new video): Heaven or Hell?
and experiences with AI-powered technological simulations become the biggest business opportunity ever? Will we stop bothering with a complicated, confusing and often exhausting reality when we can live in a perfectly orchestrated and comfortable virtual reality?
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Nov 2021
Facebook: The Largest Autocracy on Earth (‘The Atlantic). Gerd’s high-lights
"Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way." Adrienne LaFrance / Via 'The Atlantic' (my high-lights)
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Oct 2021
Technology is exponential but humans are not: Why Digital Ethics is an increasingly crucial topic (and some new keynotes)
“Technology can do great things, but it does not WANT ...
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Jun 2021
Europe takes the lead on AI regulation – this is a big deal!
‘The European Union wants to become the world's super-regulator in ...
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Apr 2021
Announcing The Fork In The Road Project – Please Join Us!
Today, I am delighted to invite all interested readers, friends, ...
06
Mar 2021
Announcing a new speaking topic: A FUTURIST’S CASE FOR TECH REGULATION
The adage “too much of a good thing can be a very bad thing” is true for most things that might cause us harm but that we enjoy, regardless - be it food, coffee or alcohol. Yet right now, this obvious need for responsibility and balance is particularly glaring when we consider our exponential technological progress and the increasingly dominant (some would say monopolistic) behaviour of the world’s leading tech giants
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Aug 2020
Big Tech’s Domination of Business Reaches New Heights (via the NYT)
“As the economy contracts and many companies struggle to survive, ...
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Aug 2020
Must-watch summary of US congress hearing on tech regulation #digitalethics (via TheVerge)
technology regulation: too much of a good thing can be a very bad thing
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Jul 2020
Tech giants are profiting — and getting more powerful — even as the global economy tanks (via WaPo)
There are really two Americas right now,” said Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at the New York University Stern School of Business and author of “The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.” “There is Big Tech and there is everyone else. They can do what very few companies can do, which is play offense in the middle of a pandemic.”
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Apr 2020
New film: The Great Transformation: Futurist Gerd Leonhard on how #covid19 will impact our immediate future
New film: The Great Transformation: Futurist Gerd Leonhard on how #covid19 will impact our immediate future
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Apr 2020
This Is Silicon Valley’s Chance to Step Up for Humanity (Tristan Harris)
With the world on lockdown, tech platforms are now the social fabric. How they act in the next few days will decide their legacy, and perhaps our fate.
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Mar 2020
In 2020, will global ‘techlash’ move from words to action? Good read via Politico
“Officials across the EU and North America are finally realizing ...
