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The Future Show with Gerd Leonhard

online shoppingFuturist, speaker, author, CEO of The Futures Agency and curator of the Leadership Summit at ITU Telecom World 2014, Gerd Leonhard presents his vision in a series of shows.

The Future Show (TFS) is a new web-TV show created and hosted by futurist Gerd Leonhard. TFS is the first web-TV show that explains the fast-paced world of technology to a general consumer and business audience in an irreverent, critical, engaging and exciting way. The TFS episodes are 4-7 minutes in duration and focus on topics that are relevant, impactful and of immediate interest to the curious consumer as well as to the global business professional who wants to stay ahead of the curve. Engaged consumers and curious professionals, the millennial generation as well as the so-called digital immigrants and foresight-minded business and civic leaders will enjoy TFS without necessarily having to be experts, geeks or early adopters.

Subject matters include how quickly and irreversibly technology is changing our lives, our jobs, our culture and our economies as well as the overall way we conduct business, how the future (personally and societally) will be impacted by what Gerd Leonhard calls ‘total digitisation’ i.e. by ubiquitous connectivity and powerful yet low-cost electronic devices, and what it will mean to ‘be human’ in such a fully-digital society. Some of the episodes will discuss privacy and surveillance, so-called big data, artificial intelligence, robots and the rise of ultra-smart machines, the rise of sustainable capitalism, the future of knowledge and education, ‘digital obesity’ and information overload, ‘offline’ as a kind of new luxury and much more.

To see all episodes of The Future Show please click on the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLanVbnXDg2UbQ3RNtQvhcgoZdxDYI90Sf

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IEEE Future Predictions

Predictions from IEEE Spectrum on what they hope will be achieved in the coming 50 years.

Special Report: The Future We Deserve

We don’t know precisely what the next 50 years will bring. But we have an excellent idea of what will be possible, and we know what we hope will happen. So here are scenarios for some of the most promising of today’s technologies. If they develop along the lines we describe, we’ll get
the future we deserve.

 

We Will End Disability by Becoming Cyborgs

Neural interfaces and prosthetics will do away with biology’s failings

To read more: https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/we-will-end-disability-by-becoming-cyborgs

 

Robots Will Pave the Way to Mars

Technologies that exploit space resources will finally open up the
solar system to human exploration

To read more: https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/robots-will-pave-the-way-to-mars

 

Make Your Own World with Programmable Matter

People will conjure objects as easily as we now play music or movies

To read more: https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/robotics-hardware/make-your-own-world-with-programmable-matter

 

Wearable Computers Will Transform Language

Smart clothes and accessories will let us share thoughts and sensations as well as words

To read more: https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/wearable-computers-will-transform-language

 

So, Where Are My Robot Servants?

Tomorrow’s robots will become true helpers and companions in
people’s homes—and here’s what it will take to develop them

To read more: https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/home-robots/so-where-are-my-robot-servants

Source: https://spectrum.ieee.org/static/the-future-we-deserve/