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The Open Web Is Dead – Long live the Open Web. Good read by Chris Saad: lead...

Insightful post, below. Main point for me: LEAD don't just cheerlead ;) The Open Web Is Dead – Long live the Open Web | Chris Saad Lead not just cheerlead In our obsession with being seen by our...

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New video: the future of Business and Communications (from Olavstoppen event...

This is the complete video of my keynote at the Olavstoppen POL2012 event in Stavanger / Norway, on The Future of Business and Communications; May 3, 2012. You can download the PDF with the slides I...

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New video: the Future of Technology in a Digital Society (Systematic Forum...

This video below is one of my favorite presentations (if I may say so, myself); it just went live on my Youtube channel and on my Blip.tv video feed (use this one to download the whole thing or just...

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Webinar invitation: Privacy versus Publicy – the next 3 years. Public debate...

Please join me for this debate – should be great fun. Andrew Keen – often called the Anti-Christ of Silicon Valley – is a long-time colleague of mine and even though we don't agree on a lot of things...

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New video: Rebooting Media: my presentation at the Belfast Media Festival 2012

This is a very nicely recorded video (thanks to the BBC NI and their fabulous studio in Belfast) and I cover a lot of ground as far as the future of media is concerned; one of my best talks on this...

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New Flickr slideshow on the future of media, television, broadcasting...

I just love those Flickr slideshows :) Share This:

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New video: What makes us successful: Gerd Leonhard at TEDxCollegeBeauSoleil

Published on Dec 6, 2012, thanks to TedXBeausoleil:  "Gerd is a Futurist and the CEO of The Futures Agency, author of 5 books, former musician and a globe-trotting keynote speaker on the creative...

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New video: Digital Media Strategist Carlo Donzella and Futurist Gerd Leonhard...

  This is the 3rd pilot for my new web-tv show called Meetings of the Mind (MotM), soon to be available at http://www.meetingsofthemind.tv). In this episode I talk to Carlo Donzella, in Rome / Italy...

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Time to unplug

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/03/techs_best_feature_the_off_swi.html Albert Einstein said that “time is relative to your state of motion.” With all this texting, tweeting, posting, and emailing, we’re...

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I am introducing media-free days

One day a week, no internet no tv no online anything Share This:

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The Strongest Careers Are Non-Linear | via LinkedIn

Agents represent workers who pick and choose projects that match them rather than signing on for indefinite amounts of time. The Harvard Business Review calls this supertemping. Business Week calls it...

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A good read on the triple bottom line (people, planet, profit) via The...

This really made me think about the imminent reboot of capitalism – Great input while working on my new Ego to Eco book, as well “Businesses are realizing that in order to maintain their viability, it...

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A wise quote about money (Tim OReilly): money… like gas in the car

I’m a serious Tim OReilly fan, no doubt about it. Here is a quote from a 2009 post entitled ‘work on stuff that really matters” that really hit home with me, again – a gentle reminder on what really...

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Nice video by Jean-Claude Biver “The importance of innovation and thinking...

Jean-Claude Biver via Jean-Claude Biver “The importance of innovation and thinking different” – YouTube. Entrepreneur Jean-Claude Biver, famous for his work at Hublot, talks about innovation,...

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The Tyranny Of Connectivity (via Jonathan Fields)

Great piece by Jonathan Fields; just what I’ve been contemplating lately – must read ! “So I pick up a new iPhone over the weekend after cracking the screen on my old one. During the 3 hours before I...

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Timely quote by Peter Drucker: “in times of turbulence the biggest danger is...

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New video: the future of crowdsourcing. Meeting of the Minds #7, with Ross...

This is the latest edition of Meeting of the Minds, my new web-TV series; another great conversation with my friend and colleague Ross Dawson, this one on the future of crowdsourcing, p2p funding,...

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Tribeca Film Festival’s Cara Cusumano urges film industry to forget piracy,...

Read the entire post via ABC.au - there are a lot of good nuggets in here. Thanks Cara.  Here are some excerpts: “Piracy is less about people not wanting to pay and more about just wanting the...

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Nice and simple explanation of the Circular Economy

… which is rapidly becoming a big part of my ‘future of business’ storytelling. Read more at Wikipedia. Related… system thinking and the IoT Image via MetroVancouver

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We need to go beyond the focus on STEM (science, tech, engineering, math)...

… an important realisation that recently dawned on my.    What will our schools, colleges and universities do about this? Watch this short video (newly edited) on what I call HUMARITHM and for context:

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