Audio-only versions of Futurist Gerd Leonhard's keynotes 2030:The Good Future Technology AND Humanity | Gerd Leonhard keynote and Q&A(Audio-version only)
Dec 29, 2021
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This is the audio version of my entire keynote at #IEEE's GCAIoT 2022 conference in Dubai (held virtually), followed by a fast-moving q&a session. A perfect way to kick off 2022:)
Imho, this is one of my best talks on what we can expect for the next 10 years, elaborating further on the topics introduced in my recent The Good Future themes and my latest film see https://www.futuristgerd.com/sharing/thegoodfuturefilm/, such as:
The future is better than we tend think!
Organism aren't algorithms - the more we connect the more we have to protect what makes us human.
Technology is a tool - not a purpose.
Algorithms know the logic of everything but the feeling of nothing.
Everything should be as connected as necessary (eg the IoT) - but not more.
AI should be all about competence not about consciousness; and we need a global moratorium on AGI.
Data is truly the new oil - but it can also be the 'new plotonium': be careful wht you wish for.
We will see more change in the next 10 years than in the previous 100 years, aswe are heading into a strange, confusing and challenging 'golden era'.
The Covid19 crisis is really tough for all of us, but also brings a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rethink what kind of future we want, and how we can realize it - it's a key pivot point in our history.
In this talk, I present 3 tickets to a good future, what I call #theddr DIGITIZATION (ethical use of exponential technology), DECARBONIZATION (green is the new digital, and the circular is becoming the only economy) and REFORMATION (i.e. switching from a focus on GDP, profit and growth to the future-fit paradigm of People Planet Purpose and Prosperity)
Don't ask what technology CAN do, but what it SHOULD do? What kind of future do we want? And what defines a 'good future' (check out my next film on this topic, coming up next week)?
2030 could be heaven or it could be hell - the choice is ours!
Watch the full video version on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/iDeQ_3n1GTE