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Knowledge Doubling Every 12 Months, Soon to be Every 12 Hours (some pretty...
Some pretty amazing stats here (even though this is from 2013:) Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every...
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10 useful futurist terms and memes: Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s favourite...
10 Futurist terms and memes that everyone should know about PDF download 3MB: Gerd’s 10 useful futurist terms and memes New: Spanish translation by Fernando del Rio (PDF: 10 Términos Y Expresiones...
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Digital Darwinism: Transforming a Business in The Selfie Era (nice piece by...
Brian Solis: To help understand what digital transformation is as well as its promise, I spent the last year along with my colleagues at Altimeter Group interviewing those who are leading change at...
View ArticleWhy Higher Education Cannot Resist Disruptive Change (something interesting I...
“This brings us to the future of higher education. Its situation is much the same as that of the news media. Content, often of high quality, can be produced by a multiplicity of knowledge...
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Genetically Modified Food is the Future, says Nicholas Negroponte (me, I’m...
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....
View ArticleThe 2 best Concepts From Malcolm Gladwell’s Bestsellers (adapted from...
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...
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Did You Know You Had Diabetes? It’s All Over the Internet (interesting read...
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...
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HBO Go without needing cable? Welcome to the future of television (good...
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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleNew opinion piece on CNN Money: “the disturbing consequences of...
CNN Money just published a new opinion piece penned by me, and edited by Alanna Petroff, in connection with their Mobile World Congress Barcelona coverage. Here are some of the most crucial snippets:...
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Must-read piece by Tim Urban (WaitButWhy): The AI Revolution – Road to...
read this: The AI Revolution: Road to Superintelligence – Wait But Why. Writes Tim: The reason this post took three weeks to finish is that as I dug into research on Artificial Intelligence, I could...
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The Apple Watch looks good – too good, actually: distractions + outsourced...
Update: read this very much related Guardian article on why multi-tasking and constant task-switching is bad for our brains. So I looked at those cool new Apple watches and those enthusiastic Apple...
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Download Futurist Gerd Leonhard’s books for free (PDF), via GerdCloud: Future...
Greetings, as you may know, I have shared most of my books via my “GerdCloud” public dropbox folder for quite some time now. Just in case you’ve missed this, here they are, individually. Happy...
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The Internet of Things and its unintended consequences: why we should proceed...
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) /...
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Good Forbes read on the future of work (by Rawn Shah), 2 perfect...
We stand at a precipice of disruption to the basic socio-economic compact between citizens and the (public and private) institutions of our society. There are reverberations in several areas bringing...
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Futurist Gerd Leonhard: some key messages on automation
Here is a few things and best-of materials I have compiled on automation, robotization and AI/IA. Enjoy! Guardian piece with some key quotes by me Will automation and the internet of things lead to...
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Important interview with Futurist Gerd Leonhard on IEET: Technology Could...
IEET just published an interview with me here. Thanks to Hank Pellissier for making this happen. IEET: Can you expand on your comment in the video, where you say: ”we will see more changes in the next...
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What does it mean to be human in the age of technology? (Tom Chatfield – The...
Great read by Tom Chatfield in The Guardian @tomchatfield Here are my highlights (essentials are italic) If there’s one thing our swelling collective articulacy as a species brings home, it’s that...
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Brilliant new report on the future of work/jobs and the impact of...
If you are wondering how jobs, work, education, training, social policy and business are changing worldwide because of technology, automation and what I call the ’10 ations’, you really should download...
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It would be truly remarkable if a Silicon Valley company rejected a...
This comment by John Markoff really nails it for me – couldn’t have said it better myself! Be sure to read this latest book ‘Machines of loving grace’ “Optimists hope that the potential abuses of our...
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