![]() I cover a wide range of topics, including artificial intelligence and the future of work and jobs, education, sustainability and what he calls the 3 revolutions: digital, sustainable and purposeful. This talk is all about #techvshuman, i.e., technology and humanity – why and how our world is shifting from focusing on profit and growth to the 4Ps: People, Planet, Purpose, and Prosperity see I explain why there is hope for the Good Future, what it may look like, and what we need to do to get there. The Good Future will come down to our ethics, values, global collaboration, a collective definition of what kind of future we want (rather than what future we can have), and to reach a consensus on how we can best achieve it. #thegoodfuture is entirely possible it all depends on the choices we make today! If you take being human for granted, press Reset now with this passionately argued call to create a genuinely braver new world.Designing The Good Future - The future is not something that just happens to us, it is something we design and create every single day, by action or by inaction. ![]() In his most provocative book to date, he explores the exponential changes swamping our societies, providing rich insights and deep wisdom for business leaders, professionals and anyone with decisions to make in this new era. What moral values are you prepared to stand up for-before being human alters its meaning forever? Gerd Leonhard is a new kind of futurist schooled in the humanities as much as in technology. The end of work-as-we-know-it, and radical longevity: The imminent clash between technology and humanity is already rushing towards us. Humanity is one of the last moral maps we’ll get as humanity enters the Jurassic Park of Big Tech. I remember meeting Gerd Leonhard Futurist, Author and a raft of other titles for the first time in a particularly crowded Benugo in Covent Garden. Before it’s too late, we must stop and ask the big questions: How do we embrace technology without becoming it? When it happens-gradually, then suddenly-the machine era will create the greatest watershed in human life on Earth. Gerd Leonhard has spent his lifetime engaging with change, as a professional artist, internet entrepreneur, author and now as a visionary thinker and speaker.įuturist Gerd Leonhard breaks new ground again by bringing together mankind’s urge to upgrade and automate everything-down to human biology itself-with our timeless quest for freedom and happiness. Futurism used to be the study of the future, but nowadays it seems hard enough to read the present. The second decade of the twenty-first century may not quite be the world of George Orwell, yet, but living in these times is certainly puzzling. As Gerd likes to say, humanity will change more in the next 20 years than in the previous 300 years – let’s make sure that we can still maintain what makes us human. ![]() People, Planet, Purpose and Prosperity is Gerd’s credo. Gerd Leonhard is not just a leading expert on the future, he is also a humanist who believes that all scientific and technological progress should further collective human flourishing. ![]() Societies are driven by their technology but defined by their humanity! To ensure that human flourishing remains the primary goal of all scientific and technological advances as we enter this era of exponential progress, we must evaluate, frame and govern technology wisely. Gibson), and that we need to invest as much in humanity than we invest in technology.Īnd that all breakthrough-technologies can be used both for human advancement, as well as to our detriment. ![]() Gerd often points out that technology does not have ethics, that it is morally neutral until we use it (riffing-off W. He believes that technology can do amazing things, and that we should embrace it – but he also thinks we must urgently protect what makes us human. Gerd is an avid futurist but also a passionate humanist a philosopher and musician by training, as well as an early internet entrepreneur. Futurist & Humanist, Keynote Speaker & Author ![]()
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