This is the audio recording of my entire keynote at https://www.mmaglobal.com/impactindia... Since the beginning of the Internet, the concept of 'cyberspace' and 'online worlds' has been a constant theme and the subject of numerous famous science fiction plots, as well as the core objective of many startups. Given that we are now living in the era of exponential progress, science fiction is increasingly becoming science fact. Virtualisation is the inevitable future of everything, yet dehumanisation needs to be kept in-check at all times... Thanks to MMA India for inviting me! More: https://twitter.com/MMA_APAC and https://www.youtube.com/user/MobileMarketingAssn Watch the video versions on Youtube: https://youtu.be/qobVYtglsCg and on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/708600688 Have a look at my new short film: The Good Future www.thegoodfuturefilm.com More metaverse stuff at http://www.themetaperverse.com If you enjoy my videos and talks, please take a look at my best-selling book “Technology vs Humanity” http://www.techvshuman.com - it's now available in 12 languages! ****For all booking inquiries please go here https://www.futuristgerd.com/contact/... Twitter: @gleonhard

In this keynote at WGS2022 I present my key insights / foresight for the next 10 years - fasten your seat-belts :) Watch the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fpkqsVbOafg and on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/714056505 Some of my key messages: The future is better than we think. We will have all the tools (science / technology) - but will we have the TELOS (the will)? Science fiction is increasingly becoming science fact. The future is already here! Covid19 was (is) a test run for climate change. Too much of a good thing can be a very bad thing (exponential technology). Technology will not solve social, human or political problems - that's a HUMAN job. Business as usual is dead or dying. We are NOT going back to 'Normal'. Green is the new digital. And soon, sustainable will be the new profitable. We are going from sick-care to HEALTH-CARE; technology and biology are converging. Education needs to switch from just-in-case to just-in-time. Watch: https://youtu.be/qBU3v5VQoTE The end of routine is not the end of human work. AI (or better IA: Intelligent Assistance) should be all about competence, not consciousness. We are going warp-drive into the future: Gradually, then Suddenly! 3 tickets to the Future: Digitisation, Decarbonisation, Reformation (see http://www.theddr.world) Related URLs and micro-sites: www.gerdsgamechangers.com https://www.goodfuture.live/ https://www.gerdtalks.com/ https://campsite.bio/pppp https://www.wyn2k.com/ Thanks for #worldgovernmentsummit 2022 in Dubai for inviting me to speak. You can watch the original recording of my talk (and all others from this event) here: https://youtu.be/FX3x2ASBfyk Have a look at my new short film: The Good Future www.thegoodfuturefilm.com If you enjoy my videos and talks, please take a look at my best-selling book “Technology vs Humanity” http://www.techvshuman.com - it's now available in 12 languages! Gerd Leonhard Futurist, Author and Keynote Speaker Zürich / Switzerland http://www.futuristgerd.com http://www.techvshuman.com (my latest book) ****For all booking inquiries please go here https://www.futuristgerd.com/contact/... Twitter: @gleonhard

This is the complete recording of my keynote at Türk Eğitim Derneği's annual event https://www.ted.org.tr/ in Ankara / Turkey and https://dijitalobezite.ted.org.tr/ in ENGLISH. Visit gerd.fm/tedankaragerdmedia (Google News) for all media coverage in Turkish In this deep-dive keynote I speak about what I call "digital obesity" in my book www.techvshuman.com, and the future of education, learning and work. What skills will we need in a world where smart machines can soon take over almost any routine? Why does 'the end of routine' not mean the end of work for humans? How will we get ready for this future, and how do our curricula have to change to make sure we are not becoming 'useless humans'? I believe that our ultimate job is .... to be HUMAN and that the future is better than we think. More EDU resources at https://padlet.com/futuristgerd/edu Have a look at my new short film: The Good Future www.thegoodfuturefilm.com If you enjoy my talks, please take a look at my best-selling book “Technology vs Humanity” http://www.techvshuman.com - it's now available in 12 languages! Twitter: @gleonhard

This is the Audio-version only of GerdTalks #6. The Sustainability Revolution will be even bigger - and vastly more existential - than the digital revolution. In this live-stream session (GerdTalks episode #6) I explained why and how Big Blue (Tech) + Big Green + Big Human (and yes, Big Planet) is the recipe for a Good Future. We have finally reached the technological and societal pivot points (including Covid-19 and now, the utterly worrisome Ukraine/Russia conflict) quickly propelling us out of the fossil fuel age. Rapid and decisive decarbonisation is on the agenda everywhere, and so is using exponential technologies such as AI, Deep Learning and the IoT to dramatically reduce pollution and overall inefficiencies in all sectors of our economies (traffic, transportation, food, construction, IT and many more). In this talk I outlined why I think 'Green is the new Digital' and what that means for the future of our economies, jobs & work, geopolitics, business and commerce as well as for our personal lives. The next 10 years will bring more change than the previous 100 years - and if you're not on this new 'green everything / circular everything' agenda, you may find yourself outmoded and ignored by 2030. My presentation is followed by a q&a session using Youtube and LinkedIn chats / comments, Have a look at my new short film: The Good Future www.thegoodfuturefilm.com Video version on YT: https://youtu.be/WH-EiN0Xazw

Here is a crucial message from me, as we are struggling towards the eventual Covid-19 rebound, dealing with the consequences of the Russian war against the Ukraine, finally starting to take real action on climate change, and regulating exponential technologies. Terrible events do not cancel the future – they challenge us to reimagine it ! The more that the present challenges us with ghosts of the past, the more we need the future to balance, inspire and steer us. The old Vikings dreaded fog because it stopped them navigating by the stars. Today’s constellations are also obscured by the fog of war and the ludicrous actions of autocratic regimes. But the stars - and the future - are still there above it all. YouTube version here: https://youtu.be/cT7htnvJvkc Music licensed via Envato Cinematic Documentary - SersalStudio Epic Heroic - cleanmindsounds A Documentary - SersalStudio Epic Documentary - AurusAudio Have a look at my new short film: The Good Future www.thegoodfuturefilm.com Get The 10 Technological and Societal Megashifts Rewiring Our World Free at: https://futuristgerd.com/megashifts Please subscribe to this channel to never miss a thing, and be sure to share my videos if you like them, and hit that notification bell:)) Sign up for my 'Best Reads & Finds' curated futurist newsletter at http://www.gerd.digital/ Audio-only versions of most of my videos are available via SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/gleonhard/tracks, and Spotify see https://gerd.fm/spotify If you enjoy my videos and talks, please take a look at my best-selling book “Technology vs Humanity” http://www.techvshuman.com - it's now available in 12 languages! Gerd Leonhard Futurist, Author and Keynote Speaker Zürich / Switzerland http://www.futuristgerd.com http://www.techvshuman.com (my latest book)

This is the audio version of the recording of #gerdtalks Ep 5 on March 14, 2022, on The Future of Democracy. Watch the video recording of the stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2thpm8naJs0 More details via http://www.gerdtalks.com These days, democracy seems increasingly under fire -declining globally- and stability is threatened by autocrats. What's next in Democracy? The Ukraine/Russia war has given me painful reason to think more about the larger context of my main 2022 topic, The Good Future see http://www.goodfuture.live While autocrats seem hell-bent on destroying stability and ending the long-lasting peace in Europe, democracy is apparently in decline for the last decade, globally (read the Freedom House report). Where is this going? How can we rekindle democracy and fix what is lagging? What's wrong with how we design and implement democracy, right now? And what's the role of technology (like social media) in all this? In my view, a Good Future is almost synonymous with Democracy - so this is a very big topic for me.

This is the Audio-version only of my new bi-weekly show on multiple platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn, etc. You can watch the video version of the stream on https://youtu.be/cC_DlYvCiEk On this Episode: Machines are getting smart. AI, fuelled by machine learning brings the end of routine-tasks for us. Yet it's NOT the end of Human Work - it's just the end of (some) routines. How can we get ready? I think that in a digital and fully interconnected world (ETA 2030) it will not be our technology that differentiates us - it will be our HUMANITY. It will not be our efficiency, our productivity, our optimization or our smartness and powerful intellect that will 'beat' the machines - it will be our human-only skills. It will be everything that machines have a hard time with. Recall the Moravec Paradox: whatever is simply for a human, is hard for a machine (and vice versa). So what are 'human-only' skills and traits? To start with, imagination, intuition, emotions, ethics, values, compassion, empathy and consciousness. Machines are binary but humans are multinary. Organisms aren't algorithms (yes, I will explain) and while we should try hard to build machines that have competence we should not strive for them to develop consciousness (see Stuart Russell 'Human Compatible). If your job is 100% routine i.e. commodity work (and indeed very very few jobs really are) the machines - software and hardware - will take your job. If your job is something like 50% routine you need to start adding unique values that are not routines or can be commoditised. Values that machines won't match anytime soon - what I call the Androrithms. Thus, the future also entails a total reboot of learning, education and training. STEM education must be matched with what I call HECI - humanities, ethics, creativity and imagination. Watch my 2020 film 'How the future works' www.howthefutureworks.tv Our ultimate job is... to be human! I started with a 15 minute presentation on the future of work, showing some brand-new memes, and then I took questions and comments from the audience using Youtube and LinkedIn comments.

This is the Audio version of the first episode of a fast-moving and impactful compilation of Futurist Gerd Leonhard's most important bottom lines and key statements, memes and messages from the past 3 years, animated with powerful graphics, such as: - You will not find real happiness on the screen or in the cloud - Technology is exponential but humans are not - AI (and machines) should have competence not consciousness - Efficiency should not be more important than humanity Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/bDTeIitZIBM More details at http://www.wyn2k.com and this special new padlet https://padlet.com/futuristgerd/wyn2k You can view and download this video on VIMEO as well https://vimeo.com/682747837 Stay tuned for the next episodes. Be sure to subscribe to gerdtube.com hit the 'Notify Me' bell as well.

This is the Audio-version only of GerdTalks Episode 3, live-streamed on Youtube, LinkedIn, Twitch and many other platforms (not on Facebook:). More details: https://www.futuristgerd.com/gerdtalks3 Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/HNUUNKMQzTc Facebook / META has become toxic and needs to be purged. In this video I present my case against FB/Meta and explore the future of social media. AI-fuelled, data-driven and automated 'media' has become extremely powerful and omni-present in our lives. Digital feudalism is the new normal, and the surveillance economy is pervasive. Facebook/Meta is the prime example of what goes wrong when algorithms, an obsession with monetisation and a general lack of respect for human principles and ethics run the show. Meta/FB's increasing power and enormous technological prowess have resulted in rampant manipulation, fast-spreading misinformation, a boom in fake news, reality distortions and half-truths, and generally have amplified a feeling of despondency and loneliness among many of it's users (particularly on Instagram). On top of this FB/Meta represents the most perfect surveillance machine ever invented - and we've all been sucked into accepting this as 'normal'. And now, meta-master Zuck wants us to follow him into his glorious Metaverse, where we can be anyone, anywhere, anytime, and literally live in his perfect simulations. Who needs that messy real-life when you can have a perfect virtual life, anyway? I have a hunch that the Metaverse might turn out to be everything we've ever wanted, but will offer little of what we really NEED. In this video, I contemplate the implications and consequences of the concept that the Metaverse is the next edition of social media (and indeed the Internet)... only 100x as troublesome. In this video I also address the overall challenges of social media such as the many side-effects of AI-based content automation, and the aberrations resulting from what I call 'digital obesity' and excessive FOMO. I have come to the conclusion that too many social media companies - and particularly FB/Meta - have become a lot like 'Big Oil' - the externalities of their activities are not their concern; let someone else worry about them! I believe that we are facing a new threat of 'digital pollution' on top of the environmental pollution we have already caused - and that this has even more potential to damage our societies.

Here is an edited and improved version (much better audio) of my January 31 '22 session for my Youtube subscribers, social media followers, readers and viewers, on the #metaverse (or rather, what I call the MetaPERverse :). The q&a session is not included here but you can watch it on the live-stream replay version here: https://youtu.be/IwWOmXj2WJE "The so-called metaverse is the latest and the boldest attempt to replace human relationships and experiences with highly monetizable simulations, reducing complex human life to data feeds, fancy graphics and AI-fuelled convenience: Consensual hallucinations sold as ‘human empowerment'. We should be careful what we wish for – such as to live in an ultra-convenient, amazing new world where we can be anyone and do anything – as we may find that our new virtual dwellings may seemingly allow us to gain a few new riches while endangering our very humanity and leading us away from real happiness" Go to http://www.themetaperverse.com to get the latest updates!