https://www.futurist.com/2020/04/10/when-futurists-were-visionaries-a-tribute-to-barbara-marx-hubbard-her-run-for-vice-president-and-the-office-for-the-future/ In the latter, there is constant monitoring of global threats, and a place and a way for leaders to come together to confront the threats. The Peace Room, in contrast, would be ...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2020/06/28/reinvent-education-ahead-of-creating-greater-access/?sh=56a9f3bb61ed There is no solution to this problem so long as the system is "teaching answers". The only solution is to start teaching students how to ask better questions so that the kids are equipped to reinvent themselves for ...

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/28/europes-technocrats-play-into-populist-hands-with-their-bungled-covid-response The economist Paul Krugman wrote that the EU had demonstrated “the same bureaucratic and intellectual rigidity that made the euro crisis a decade ago far worse than it should have been”. Gerd Leonhard www....

https://www.campaignasia.com/article/vodafone-unveils-together-we-can-as-new-global-brand-positioning/468700 Investing in brand is important to help Vodafone “differentiate” itself and demonstrate it is more than a utility, as it expands in areas such as digital financial services and the internet of things, and “to take responsibility...

https://www.exponentialview.co/p/ev-316 evolves. Clegg also raises important questions about who gets to set the guardrails for these types of discussions. “Should a private company be intervening to shape the ideas that flow across its systems, above and beyond the prevention of serious harms like incitement to violence and harassment...

https://www.campaignasia.com/article/vodafone-unveils-together-we-can-as-new-global-brand-positioning/468700 Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiVE3lH4DyM Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com

and be sure to watch. https://youtu.be/cC-nvWdnNTM Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com

“Capitalism is on a collision course with human life and the future of our planet. Each year, air pollution takes more lives than smoking: the last estimate suggests 8.8m deaths across the world, compared with 7m from cigarettes” The planet cannot survive our remorseless pursuit of profit | Oil | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.co...

https://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/the-fantastic-business-of-the-future/ The fantastic business of the future Rather than inspiring staff or communities to change, futurists too often let their findings end up in the hands of a “single policy-maker curled up in his office, reading a white paper,” Haldenby says. “The last two gene...

https://brookfieldinstitute.ca/report/ahead-by-a-century-employment-in-2030/ good read

https://thoughtleadership.rbc.com/the-future-of-post-secondary-education-on-campus-online-and-on-demand/ Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/03/27/bright-side-of-the-moonshots If drug development is more targeted on instructing cells what to do, rather than finding novel molecules against specific proteins, some of the know-how on which old-style pharma is based will be less relevant. Firms will need new pricing models and a new focus ...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-move-to-block-user-tracking-spawns-new-digital-ad-strategies-11616751001 Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com

“takes 20 years to become an overnight success.” Bright side of the moonshots https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/03/27/bright-side-of-the-moonshots via Instapaper Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com

Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com

Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/03/27/bright-side-of-the-moonshots The spate of data, experiments and insights has had profound effects on the pandemic—and, indeed, on the future of medicine. It is also an inspiration. Around the world, scientists have put aside their own work in order to do their bit against a common foe. Jealo...

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/03/27/bright-side-of-the-moonshots Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com

“With reason, we tend to focus on the huge and growing wealth gap between the ultrarich and the middle class and poor in rich countries like the U.S. But a much bigger gap exists between even the relatively less well-off in the developed world and most of humanity.” Axios Future https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-046cfdf8-b...

“R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome and several other spectacular things, wrote a book in 1969 called “Utopia or Oblivion: the Prospects for Humanity.” In it he suggested that in several decades humanity would come to a fork in the road, the two roads being utopia and abundance on one side and a mindless road to obliv...

https://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/7-university-leaders-contemplate-the-future-of-higher-education-in-canada/ Ken Steele, higher education strategist and president, Eduvation Inc. I see the development of increasingly personalized and customized programs, modes of delivery and student services as universities con...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-ive-learned-from-the-pandemic-year-11616096261?mod=series_covidsymposium Tom Hanks: Never Play Solitaire Again The virus has taught us that life and health are precarious and we must not squander precious time If in the past year you played solitaire, even a single game, you wasted that time. Take it f...

Covid-19 has accelerated the demise of traditional corporate capitalism https://www.futuristgerd.com/2021/03/capitalism-as-we-know-it-is-unfit-for-the-future/ 2019 was a year of great prosperity and innovation, with stock markets booming, democracy largely thriving (well, apart from what went down in Trump's USA), and unemployment at n...

New #longread: “Why #Capitalism as we know it is unfit for the Future" Written by #futurist Gerd Leonhard @gleonhard and @mattwardio Covid-19 has accelerated the demise of traditional corporate capitalism” https://gerd.fm/2OWOUPJ

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“Since time immemorial, many students have invoked cliches to compose the most terrible essays. Maybe the GPT-3 text generator can help them. It certainly can't do any worse, right?” This AI neural network writes college essays better than students | Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2021/03/17/this-ai-neural-network-writes-college-es...

https://www.ft.com/content/85939eef-8427-49b6-9640-ea8f34a5fcf0 Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com

Together with 2 fellow futurists and initiators, Glen Hiemstra and David Houle, I recently started an exciting new project named after Buckminster Fuller's meme "The Fork in the Road". The idea of The Fork In The Road Project is to use bold futuristic narratives, deep foresight and unique story-telling approaches to dramatically accele...

"Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked" — R. Buckminster Fuller