Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Gerd Leonhard, CEO of The Futures Agency, host of The Future Show and author of Technology vs Humanity.
He talks about his new book Technology vs Humanity, the Global Technology Ethics Council he would like to create and why he’d like to meet President Barack Obama.
Gerd Leonhard is:
“One of the foremost futurists in the world.” – The Wall Street Journal.
“There are hundreds of consultancies that help corporations understand the challenges of a fast moving world, but few have a client base like Gerd’s. From Google to the European Commission, the 54-year-old futurist has the ear of some of the world’s most significant decision makers.” – Wired magazine
What’s covered:
It is time to choose your team – Team Human! Every business leader, technology pioneer and public official needs to accept and act upon his responsibility as a steward of humanity. Humanity will change more in the next 20 years than it has in the previous 300 years. Whilst technology will bring be huge benefits; we need to be acutely aware of the threats and protect humanity accordingly.
We need to have more human centric policies and standards, ethics, social contracts and global agreements on humanising those technologies that will grow exponentially. These agreements will be as important as nuclear non-proliferation treaties. It’s time to choose your team. Choose Team Human to avoid Oppenheimer regret!
Gerd Leonhard’s Human Story:
Gerd is the son of a German forester: Here, his journey from training to be a priest at Bonn University, to being musician, an entrepreneur and later to becoming one of the world’s leading futurists.
Gerd Leonhard’s Big Ideas:
The proposed Global Technology Ethics Council.
Why we all should want him to achieve his objective.
The people Gerd would like to invite to be on that Council.
Who he’d like to meet:
President Barack Obama.
The question he would like to ask Barack Obama.
Gerd Leonhard futurist, author and humanist more details below:
CEO http://thefuturesagency.com
Follow his updates and join the conversation http://www.techvshuman.com
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