https://www.iea.org/reports/net-zero-by-2050 Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com

https://www.futuristgerd.com/2021/05/too-much-of-a-good-thing-can-be-a-very-bad-thing-technologys-future/ The impact of exponential change is incredibly hard to imagine We should take note that while today’s technological progress often seems very impressive and useful, mostly harmless and easily manageable, it would be very foolish in...

https://cognitiveworld.com/articles/2021/5/15/too-much-of-a-good-thing-can-be-a-very-bad-thing-technologys-future Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com

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

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...

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

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

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

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

https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-risks-report-2021 Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com

https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth-past-future Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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