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The Future of Social Media: Gerd Leonhard’s recent live-streaming show GerdTalks#3
“Technology is morally neutral until we use it”, you probably heard me say this countless times (quoting William Gibson). In this event, below, that was...
“It’s hard to be a moral person. Technology is making it harder.” Sigal Samuel on technology use (my high-lights)
"Many a bystander has witnessed a car accident or a fist-fight and taken out their phone to film the drama rather than rushing over to...
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Aug 2021
Facebook is no longer ‘social’ anything – it’s an AI-platform that needs to be regulated (updated)
Last year's reports that some apparently well-funded Russian entities used Facebook to systemically disseminate fake news and seed widespread dissent during the 2016 U.S. elections is...
15
Jan 2018
You Need to Practice Being Your Future Self
“Here’s the key: You need to spend time on the future even when there are more important things to do in the present and even...
29
Dec 2016
TV Interview on the future of technology, banking, digital ethics & humanity: Gerd Leonhard SIBOS 2016
Watch this pretty far-ranging interview, covering a lot of really important themes from my book and of course from The Future Show LIVE which premiered...
02
Oct 2016
Here are 100+ of my best recently used slides
Feel free to use them, based on my creative commons attribution non-commercial license 🙂 ... Read more
04
Sep 2016
Medium and Twitter founder Ev Williams says it all: ‘We put junk food in front of them and they eat it’
“It’s understandable why media on the web is like it is today,” Williams tells the Guardian. “That’s not to say there’s not a lot of...
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Apr 2016
The evilfication of Facebook: boiling frogs, faustian bargains, and the pleasure trap: 10 arguments for quitting Facebook (UPDATED)
This post will be updated regularly as I'm deciding on what to do about my Facebook presence. Thanks for all your votes btw – you...
28
Jan 2016
Great video about social media #hellven: Prince EA: Can we auto-correct humanity ?
via Buzzfeed American rapper Prince Ea’s latest video, “Can We Auto-Correct Humanity?”, about the damaging effect of social media on human interaction, has gone viral...
06
Jul 2015
Video and slides from my keynote on #NewWayToWork for IBM at Cebit Hannover
More details on this event UPDATE June 15 2015: here is the video with my keynote NewWayToWork Gerd Leonhard Cebit March 2015 IBM Public-web 5...
18
Mar 2015
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...
12
Sep 2014
▶2 short BBC Interviews on the Future of Television (Futurist Gerd on YouTube)
▶ Gerd Leonhard BBC Interview on the Future of Television – YouTube. These clips were recorded in NY in 2012. Thanks to the BBC for...
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Apr 2014
The Pointlessness of Unplugging : The New Yorker (good read related to my Digital Obesity meme)
Interesting point below; yet I think of unplugging more like scheduling a diet – just having a few days where you eat less, and get...
21
Mar 2014
New video: Infotrends Sao Paulo 2013: the Future of Media, Content, Advertising (Keynote by Gerd Leonhard, Portuguese subtitles)
This is a pretty nice recording and it shows that I really enjoy speaking to Brazilian audiences – check it out! You can view the...
13
Aug 2013
The power of social media (nice slideshow by fellow futurist Ross Dawson, cheeky cartoon added by me:)
The Power of Social Media – Keynote slides from Ross Dawson ... Read more
