“The final overarching deal did not include commitments to "phase down" or reduce use of fossil fuels.” https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63677466 via @Instapaper Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business) Check my new updates page

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRYjZed8ysM Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sl28fkrozE&t=98s Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business) Check my new updates page

https://www.voguescandinavia.com/articles/greta-the-great Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business) Check my new updates page

https://www.axios.com/climate-change-pessimism-future-ipcc-dbd9fd35-8474-45f1-bf12-69a8095f4272.html Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com (personal) gerd@thefuturesagency.com (business) Check my new updates page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future With its emphasis on scientific accuracy and non-fiction descriptions of history and social science, the novel is classified as hard science fiction. It is also a part of the growing body of climate fiction. Robinson had previously written other climate fiction novels, such as 2...

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Read this book: The ministry of the future https://gerd.fm/3y1Veq4 by Kim Stanley Robinson @ksrinfo is a 10* read - a total MUST for anyone looking at the future #climatechange #decarbonisation Some snippets here via @goodreads https://gerd.fm/3x2vDgN

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/06/20/us-economy-changes/ The same is true of the rise of automation during the pandemic. As companies looked for ways to reduce the number of people in an office, hotel or factory, they turned to robots and telework. They invested heavily in technology, which economists predict could result...

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210610000982&ACE_SEARCH=1 Gerd Leonhard www.futuristgerd.com www.gerdtube.com gerd@hey.com gerd@thefuturesagency.com

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...