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Sorry Elon: AI & Humanoid Robots are NOT going to solve every problem. Questioning Techno-Optimism.
My message: Techno-Optimism isn’t a useful strategy for creating #thegoodfuture of Humanity #elonmusk In his recent appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos 2026 (see below for link) Elon Musk presented a grand vision where AI and robotics pave the path to global abundance and solve poverty. He predicts that AI could be smarter than any individual human by the end of the year, and smarter than all of humanity collectively by 2030 or 2031. But is this seductive "techno-optimism" really
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Protopia: Building The Good Future: Yes we can! Futurist Gerd Leonhard's powerful online keynote
The future is not written—it’s a choice. In this talk, I explore why #thegoodfuture is entirely possible and how we can build it—step by step, painfully, but surely. #protopia not dystopia @KevinKelly From solving climate change to wrestling with the rise of artificial intelligence, the next ten years will bring more change than the last 100 years. Will we let technology dictate our destiny, or will we use wisdom, ethics, Telos, and collaboration to shape a future worth living in? We’re standi
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Geopolitics, AI and The Good Future: Why Europe must Take Back Tomorrow (complete event recording)
This is an edited version of my recent guest appearance on the @LondonFuturists video podcast, see https://youtu.be/0WgaL3QKCDo?si=4GI5spqAoTKGKQVI, with @David_W_Wood and @liselottelyngsofuturist TL;DR? Here is the Gerd-talk only cut: https://youtu.be/GjvE-HC_JKU?si=KtlkGd1umt5fOqbJ (only my presentation) Take Back Tomorrow: Addressing Existential Risks and Building a Better Future In this enlightening episode, David Wood chairs a thought-provoking discussion with renowned futurists Ger
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How the U.S. has lost the plot on The Good Future, and why Europe needs to #takebacktomorrow today
This presentation is an excerpt from a recent online event I did with @LondonFuturists see https://youtu.be/0WgaL3QKCDo?si=0P6D_SwWYIm4QEDv for the entire show (a must watch!) In this hard-hitting presentation I reflect on the shifts in global futures over the 2 years, emphasizing the emergence of what I call 'the bad future' see www.thebadfuture.com for more details - it's the antidote to my core theme of #thegoodfuture :) I speak about key challenges such as the rapid and painful degradat
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How Ai Slop will Spark the Next Human Renaissance
Head to http://squarespace.com/afterskool to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code afterskool. This episode of After Skool focuses on the hidden tradeoffs of adopting new technology. Each time we gain something with a new invention, we also lose something, and what we lose is often hard to see until much later. We can all sense that Ai will be the single biggest driver of change in the next decade and may very well be our last invention. There’s no denying that it’s
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You're Not Overreacting. This Is Actually Fascism.
Historians are now using the f-word to describe what's happening in America. In this video, I explain why, why it matters, and what you can do. KEY SOURCES & FURTHER READING → Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (2004) → Robert Paxton, "The Five Stages of Fascism," Journal of Modern History (1998) → Umberto Eco, "Ur-Fascism," The New York Review of Books (1995) → Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works (2018) → Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny (2017) ESSENTIAL RECENT ESSAYS → Rosan Smits, "This Is Fasc
