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Gerd leonhard book
Gerd leonhard book









gerd leonhard book

He is the co-author of the best-selling book The. 1 2 He currently as of lives in Zurich, Switzerland. Gerd is also an influential author, a sought-after executive future trainer and a trusted strategic advisor.

GERD LEONHARD BOOK SERIES

Watch Gerd’s first episode on Technology vs Humanity of his new video series entitled ‘conversations with Gerd’ see are short films with interviews on key topics such as technology versus humanity, digital transformation, the future of the internet, exponential change, artificial intelligence, the future of work and much more. Gerd Leonhard is a German futurist, speaker and author who specializes in the debate between humanity and technology. Gerd is most recently the author of a brand new book titled Technology vs Humanity: The Coming Clash Between Man and Machine and, as someone who puts stress on ethics in his work as a futurist, I thought he would make a great interviewee on Singularity.FM. For example, he is co-author of the visionary book The Future of Music and author of five other books, including his latest bestseller Technology vs. (A great example would be how people are increasingly looking towards technology to solve social challenges: political activism on Facebook (press Like rather than making sure the right people get voted), or on increasing security and digital surveillance to ‘solve’ terrorism) Every technological advancement impacts on how we interact as humans, and in many future cases we will need to safeguard, hedge or kind of ‘national-parkize’ those human idiosyncrasies so that they are not diminished or even eradicated by the tendency of technology to present itself as a solution to everything. As I like to say: for every amazing algorithm we need to strengthen our already existing androrithm. “Computers are stupid – they only provide answers” (Picasso) Computers are for answers, humans are for questions (Kevin Kelly). A person that meets me in a hallway somewhere needs an average of 1.4 seconds to gain some kind of basic understanding about me, even without speaking – a computer still does not really understand my values and feelings after it has ingested my entire browsing and social network history of the past 7 years (an estimated 200 Million data points).Īndrorithms include human traits such as empathy, compassion, creativity, story-telling and soon to be relicts such as mystery, serendipity, mistakes and secrets. A super-computer can win in chess or GO but can currently not talk to a 2-year old. Listed by Wired Magazine as one of the top 100 most influential people in Europe (2015), Gerd Leonhard’s work focusses on the future of humanity and technology, digital transformation, the megashifts, artificial intelligence and robotics, media, content, marketing and advertising, telecommunications, culture and tourism, banking and financial se. I use the term to describe what really matters for most of us: human ‘rhythms’ not machine rhythms i.e. This is a key neologism in the book (i.e.

gerd leonhard book

One of the powerful key memes from the Technology vs Humanity book are androrithms.











Gerd leonhard book