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

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https://www.gerdfeed.com/post/645813899779833856/after-all-8-of-the-10-best-jobs-in-america-for After all, 8 of the 10 best jobs in America for 2021 are in tech. It can create opportunities for our youth — no matter where they are based, which background they come from, which “class” or “family” they belong to...

Video, slides and audio from this important Gerd Leonhard Keynote European Liberal Forum 3/10 2021: Gerd’s take on Europe, Media and Tech Regulation https://medium.com/futurist-gerd-technology-business-and-digital/video-slides-and-audio-from-my-keynote-own-the-future-at-the-european-liberal-forum-march-10-bfa8b2a1ce65

It was instead largely foretold by something far more prosaic: the position you held on the socioeconomic spectrum, by your class, race and gender. Across so many issues, the pandemic is not a story of an infection curve rising and falling, but two lines moving in different directions. Opinion | We Did Not Suffer Equally Gerd Leonhard ...