![]() ![]() Sure, there’s the same - and big - changes that we focused on at HR Technology Europe (which I’ve chaired for the last couple of years) eg Thomas Otter’s nexus of cloud, social, mobile and big data. My response to my neighbour was that that I’m not sure there was. We started the morning with conference chairman DonTaylor asking us what’s going to be new in learning technology this year. That’s good actually - it means I’ve got no choice but to do some blogging - at least, that is, if I want to be invited back again next year (and after walking out of one of my nominated sessions probably not even then). This is Learning Technologies which I manage to attend in one role or another most years - last year I was a speaker and this year I’ve been on the blog / tweet-squad for the second day of the conference. This week it’s been my first conference this year (other than crashing the HR Directors Business Summit hashtag last week). If you take being human for granted, press Reset now with this passionately argued call to create a genuinely braver new world.I’m still having a rubbish start to the year for blogging but with the start of the conference season I should be back to normal productivity again soon. In his most provocative book to date, he explores the exponential changes swamping our societies, providing rich insights and deep wisdom for business leaders, professionals and anyone with decisions to make in this new era. What moral values are you prepared to stand up for-before being human alters its meaning forever? Gerd Leonhard is a new kind of futurist schooled in the humanities as much as in technology. The end of work-as-we-know-it, and radical longevity: The imminent clash between technology and humanity is already rushing towards us. Humanity is one of the last moral maps we’ll get as humanity enters the Jurassic Park of Big Tech. Before it’s too late, we must stop and ask the big questions: How do we embrace technology without becoming it? When it happens-gradually, then suddenly-the machine era will create the greatest watershed in human life on Earth. ![]() Gerd Leonhard has spent his lifetime engaging with change, as a professional artist, internet entrepreneur, author and now as a visionary thinker and speaker.įuturist Gerd Leonhard breaks new ground again by bringing together mankind’s urge to upgrade and automate everything-down to human biology itself-with our timeless quest for freedom and happiness. Futurism used to be the study of the future, but nowadays it seems hard enough to read the present. ![]() The second decade of the twenty-first century may not quite be the world of George Orwell, yet, but living in these times is certainly puzzling. As Gerd likes to say, humanity will change more in the next 20 years than in the previous 300 years – let’s make sure that we can still maintain what makes us human. People, Planet, Purpose and Prosperity is Gerd’s credo. Gerd Leonhard is not just a leading expert on the future, he is also a humanist who believes that all scientific and technological progress should further collective human flourishing. Societies are driven by their technology but defined by their humanity! To ensure that human flourishing remains the primary goal of all scientific and technological advances as we enter this era of exponential progress, we must evaluate, frame and govern technology wisely. Gibson), and that we need to invest as much in humanity than we invest in technology.Īnd that all breakthrough-technologies can be used both for human advancement, as well as to our detriment. Gerd often points out that technology does not have ethics, that it is morally neutral until we use it (riffing-off W. He believes that technology can do amazing things, and that we should embrace it – but he also thinks we must urgently protect what makes us human. Gerd is an avid futurist but also a passionate humanist a philosopher and musician by training, as well as an early internet entrepreneur. Futurist & Humanist, Keynote Speaker & Author ![]()
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