This is my brand-new film on the future of work, jobs and education. Are you excited, or are you worried? The next 20 years will bring more change than the previous 300 years. Technology is rebooting the very idea of work, how we work, when we work, where we work, and sooner or later why we work. Computers are no longer stupid.

Are you ready for the greatest changes in recent human history? Futurism meets humanism in Gerd Leonhard's ground-breaking new work of critical observation, discussing the multiple Megashifts that will radically alter not just our society and economy but our values and our biology. Wherever you stand on the scale between technomania and nostalgia for a lost world, this is a book to challenge, provoke, warn and inspire. From two decades of traveling the world and speaking about future scenarios across many industries and cultures, Futurist Gerd Leonhard has acquired unique foresights and intuition into where the world is rapidly going. As technology develops at an exponential pace and redefines the way we work, live and even think, he explores the myriad unasked questions we should have been posing some time ago.

This is my brand-new film on the future of work, jobs and education. Find out more at http://www.howthefuturework... (and download the film for offline viewing, if desired). Are you excited, or are you worried? The next 20 years will bring more change than the previous 300 years. Technology is rebooting the very idea of work, how we work, when we work, where we work, and sooner or later why we work.

What will happen as we enter the era of human augmentation, artificial intelligence and government-by-algorithm? James Barrat, author of Our Final Invention, said: "Coexisting safely and ethically with intelligent machines is the central challenge of the twenty-first century." A lot of folks are earnestly exploring the topic. "Will scientists soon be able to create supercomputers that can read a newspaper with understanding, or write a news story, or create novels, or even formulate laws?" asks J. Storrs Hall in Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine (2007). "And if machine intelligence advances beyond human intelligence, will we need to start talking about a computer's intentions?" Sharing this concern, SpaceX/Tesla entrepreneur Elon Musk has joined with Y Combinator founder Sam Altman to establish OpenAI, an endeavor that aims to keep artificial intelligence research -- and its products -- accountable by maximizing transparency and openness. Among the most-worried is Swiss author Gerd Leonhard, whose new book Technology Vs. Humanity: The Coming Clash Between Man and Machine, coins an interesting term, "androrithm," to contrast with the algorithms that are implemented in every digital calculating engine or computer. Some foresee algorithms ruling the world with the inexorable automaticity of reflex, and Leonhard asks: "Will we live in a world where data and algorithms triumph over androrithms…i.e., all that stuff that makes us human?"

We had the opportunity to exchange ideas about the reality, trends and future of the bank industry some weeks ago, during the Banking Day 2018. We decided to call the event "Banking on the move: embracing new dynamics" because of the ongoing transformation all financial services firms go through. With the rise of Fintech, artificial intelligence and automation, banking is arguably one of the most impacted industries. During more than 4 hours, we had the chance to get a taste of what key Industry players in Luxembourg feel about the changes to come, and how they've started tackling digital transformation. Gerd Leonhard, an acknowledged futurist, took part in the event, sharing thought-provoking ideas and predictions, and inviting the audience to start living the future now.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis, Prediction, Image Processing, Video Processing... these (and many other) buzzwords have found their way to regular news, from research papers. They are found in almost every business article, every strategy document, every implementation proposal and every resume. This means, all of a sudden, millions of people are reading about these technologies, and I wonder how much they really understand. When'Rocket Science' or'Quantum Mechanics' is considered as the height of not-easy-to-understand-ness, people are quick to judge AI and related topics as easy-to-understand. This is really puzzling and worrying!

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Interesting write-up by Jennifer L. Schenker published end of January on Techonomy. "We should not let Silicon Valley be the mission control for humanity," argues futurist Gerd Leonhard, author of a new book called Tech versus Humanity: The coming clash between man and machine. If autonomous AI software, crunching data far more rapidly than humans, can help eradicate disease and poverty and introduce societal improvements and efficiencies, then we must embrace it, Leonhard says. But "at the same time we have to have governance. And right now there is no such thing."

I remember meeting Gerd Leonhard [Futurist, Author and a raft of other titles] for the first time in a particularly crowded Benugo in Covent Garden. The meeting came after several near misses and during one of his gigs in London and we decided just to wing it. The fries were unmemorable but the conversation probably set me on the path I find myself travelling today. I have quizzed him on his latest book "Technology Vs. Humanity" [Amazon] in which he poses some interesting questions about the future of the human race and technology but essentially asks; "Are you on team human, or not...? We are at a pivot point in human history [and you need to choose]."

I remember meeting Gerd Leonhard [Futurist, Author and a raft of other titles] for the first time in a particularly crowded Benugo in Covent Garden. The meeting came after several near misses and during one of his gigs in London and we decided just to wing it. The fries were unmemorable but the conversation probably set me on the path I find myself travelling today. I have quizzed him on his latest book "Technology Vs. Humanity" [Amazon] in which he poses some interesting questions about the future of the human race and technology but essentially asks; "Are you on team human, or not...? We are at a pivot point in human history [and you need to choose]."