https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-smartphones-hijack-our-minds-1507307811 Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com
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May 9, 2021
Book Review: The ‘New Realism’ of Eternal Faith in Humanity – Kashmir Reader
https://kashmirreader.com/2021/02/23/book-review-the-new-realism-of-eternal-faith-in-humanity/ Darwin’s thesis “survival of the fittest” is now considered as “fundamental law” of survival and progress. Karl Marx, the prophet of communism, had praised Darwin and acknowledged that his own thesis of “class struggle” was inspired from Darw...
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May 7, 2021
Climate change: how bad could the future be if we do nothing?
https://theconversation.com/climate-change-how-bad-could-the-future-be-if-we-do-nothing-159665 Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com
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May 6, 2021
On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World - Andreessen Horowitz
https://a16z.com/2021/04/07/on-supercities-economic-growth-and-income-inequality-in-a-post-covid-world/?utm_source=twitter Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com
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May 1, 2021
Accenture: ‘Future-Ready’ Companies Twice As Efficient, Three Times As Profitable
https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlestowersclark/2021/04/29/accenture-future-ready-companies-twice-as-efficient-three-times-as-profitable/ Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com
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April 28, 2021
Paradigm changes post COVID
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2021/04/the-atlantic-daily-our-personal-relationships-with-nature-are-changing/618677/ Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com
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April 24, 2021
The Global Risks Report 2021 | World Economic Forum
https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-risks-report-2021 Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com
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April 24, 2021
Population growth ?
https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth-past-future Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-17/the-city-as-a-survival-mechanism-kim-stanley-robinson Only about 3% of the animal biomass left on the Earth’s land surface is wild, the other 97% being humans and our food animals. Wilson’s plan, if we were to pursue it, would address this shocking imbalance. It has the additional adva...
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April 16, 2021
Precision fermentation
https://www.exponentialview.co/p/-the-cow-is-facing-an-existential Overall, for each protein produced from PF as opposed to the cow we will require: • 10-25x less feedstock • 5x less energy • 10x less water • 100x less land. At present 40 per cent of US land is dedicated to cows; in the move to the modern protein system, they estimate ...
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April 16, 2021
Musk questions
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/04/surely-we-can-do-better-than-elon-musk Musk has nevertheless charged customers $10,000 each for the promise of a “fully self-driving” feature on their cars. The fact that no such car is here, and none appears likely to be here soon, means there is already talk of class action lawsuits among those ...
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April 16, 2021
Algoritmos não podem aprender sentimentos, diz futurólogo Gerd Leonhard | Suplementos | Valor Econômico
https://valor.globo.com/publicacoes/suplementos/noticia/2021/04/14/algoritmos-nao-podem-aprender-sentimentos-diz-futurologo-gerd-leonhard.ghtml Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com
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April 4, 2021
The peace room and Barbara Marx Hubbard
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 ...
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April 4, 2021
Questions not answers
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 ...
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April 4, 2021
Europe’s future
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....
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April 4, 2021
Vodafone and humanity
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...
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April 4, 2021
Clegg and Facebook
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...
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April 3, 2021
Vodafone unveils ‘Together We Can’ as new global brand positioning | Marketing | Campaign Asia
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
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April 3, 2021
(18) How the biological revolution is changing what we eat — and more - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiVE3lH4DyM Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com
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April 2, 2021
My Future of Europe Policy Paper via the ELF
and be sure to watch. https://youtu.be/cC-nvWdnNTM Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com
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March 30, 2021
“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”
“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...
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March 28, 2021
The fantastic business of the future
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...
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March 28, 2021
Ahead by a Decade: Employment in 2030 – Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship
https://brookfieldinstitute.ca/report/ahead-by-a-century-employment-in-2030/ good read
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March 27, 2021
The Future of Post-Secondary Education: On Campus, Online and On Demand
https://thoughtleadership.rbc.com/the-future-of-post-secondary-education-on-campus-online-and-on-demand/ Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com
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March 27, 2021
Pharma futures
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 ...
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March 27, 2021
Apple’s Move to Block User Tracking Spawns New Digital Ad Strategies
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
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March 27, 2021
“takes 20 years to become an overnight success.”
“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
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March 27, 2021
The 5 hour rule of learning
Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com
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March 27, 2021
Carbon tax Portugal
Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com
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March 27, 2021
Progress due to Covid
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...
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