Innotown 2016 Norway: Futurist Keynote Speaker Gerd Leonhard: next 5 years in technology
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This is the complete video recording of my talk at Innotown 2016 in Alesund Norway, on digital transformation and the key future scenarios impacting business, culture, technology and society. See http://gerd.io/28ZXoP6 for the slides and more details. A big THANKS to Dag and Innotown for making this available. Gerd Leonhard Futurist, Author and Keynote Speaker Basel / Switzerland http://www.futuristgerd.com or www.gerdleonhard.de Please note: audio-only versions of many videos are being made available here: http://gerd.fm/gerdaudiofeed or on the web at http://www.futuretalks.com My vimeo channel is here: https://vimeo.com/gerdfuturist (you can also download all videos from here). Most of my books, presentations and slideshows are available via http://www.gerdcloud.com
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How does one become a "futurist"? Is there a formal degree for this field, I wonder...
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The beginning of this was great. Then he starts trying to differentiate Humans from Technology. He starts asserting that a business isn't digital or tech. This is where his bias and romanticism of Humanity jumps the rails. Humans ARE technology! DNA is digital! We make decisions based on data. Art, intuition, creativity, emotion, myth, morals, standards, all the other words he used to try and make Humans different comes down to data. All of those "uniquely Human" traits are based on data! That doesn't make us "just another commodity". That makes us the most valuable commodity! I run a massage business. I've been using "smart machines" as my business model from the beginning. I call them Massage Therapists. But they have to have great programming. We are all machines. We are all data. I'm starting to think if we drill down into Gerd's base program it will come out that he thinks Humans are made with magic. I mean, what else is there. Machines, programming, data, hardware, etc. What is that thing that Humans have different? We are way more complicated than computers and machines today, of course. But other than that? Magic dust? I would argue that the core difference is complexity. Not magic.
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