Tag: must-reads
The Internet of Things and its unintended consequences: why we should proceed with caution
Download the PDF version: The Internet of Things and its unintended consequences: why we should proceed with caution Download all my other stuff via GerdCloud/Dropbox The Internet of Things (IoT) / Internet of Everything / Industrial Internet is sizzling hot. Everywhere I go people ask me about it. Almost every single event I ...
Video and slides: my presentation from today's CEO Clubs Greece event in Athens: digital transformation, and the future of Europe and… Greece
Great event here in Athens today! Really amazing to see that much optimism and openness despite all the really tough issues, here in Greece, right now. Link to event details (PDF) Update: here’s the video This is the key slide I just added, in retrospect:) Athens CEO Clubs Greece Gerd Leonhard Public nP-web 6MB ...
The future of work and jobs: a short overview of the key issues, illustrations, stats and videos
The future of work and jobs has become a major topic for me. It is abundantly clear that the exponential digitisation, optimization, automation, virtualisation and robotisation (phew!) of society will result in a huge number of job losses around the globe, first in blue-collar jobs and then in white-collar jobs ...
Gerd Leonhard’s Megashifts: digitization, mobilisation, screenification, disintermediation, decentralisation, automation, intelligization, virtualization, anticipation, robotisation
It seems like all those ‘…ation’-words are naturally converging right now; in almost every keynote I am touching on these trends that may, on one hand, mean very good things for all of us, but may also result in a future that is increasingly less ‘human’. I have taken to calling ...
Nice presentation by DearMedia’s Dado Van Peteghem: Digital transformation at EMC Forum 2014
Digital transformation at EMC Forum 2014 https://www.slideshare.net/DearMedia/digital-transformation-at-emc-forum-2014
The Future of In-Flight Entertainment: Virtual Reality? (interesting trend)
“Such virtual reality headgear are staples of science fiction movies. In “Demolition Man,” Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock use them to have virtual sex (it doesn’t go well). In the original “Total Recall,” Arnold Schwarzenegger uses one to go on a virtual vacation (that goes even worse).” The Future of In-Flight ...
HBO Go without needing cable? Welcome to the future of television (good insights via the Guardian)
From channels to platforms…! Broadcasting converges with Boadbanding:) see my illustrations below. I do think that, outside of the US, it’s more about cable-nevers than cable-cutters:) However, what’s really worrisome is that 49% of subscribers aged 25 to 34 say they are “very likely” to ditch cable. Much of that might ...
Did You Know You Had Diabetes? It’s All Over the Internet (interesting read via Bloomberg)
This is a good read on a topic I have been looking at very closely – which personal information can be used online for what purpose, by whom, and when – and what are the unintended consequences of exponential technologies that make everything so much more efficient, transparent and omniscient? The ...
The 2 best Concepts From Malcolm Gladwell’s Bestsellers (adapted from BusinessInsider)
Via BusinessInsider: Malcolm Gladwell’s first two bestsellers, The Tipping Point and Blink, earned him a place onTime’s 2005 “Most Influential People” list; and with Outliers, the “10,000 Hour” theory made its way into the zeitgeist. My high-lights below: Gladwell suggests decision making performed with a “frugality” of information — learn to recognize when enough information has been gathered… ...
Genetically Modified Food is the Future, says Nicholas Negroponte (me, I’m not so sure about that)
In the food department you could argue that genetics is their equivalent of [digital] bits and that you can create meat synthetically from the genes of meat. In other words you can do artificial meat. People are doing it at the moment. So, you know, just a tiny sample of ...