Watch Gerd's first episode on Technology vs Humanity of his new video series entitled ‘conversations with Gerd' see are short films with interviews on key topics such as technology versus humanity, digital transformation, the future of the internet, exponential change, artificial intelligence, the future of work and much more. (A great example would be how people are increasingly looking towards technology to solve social challenges: political activism on Facebook (press Like rather than making sure the right people get voted), or on increasing security and digital surveillance to ‘solve’ terrorism)

Every technological advancement impacts on how we interact as humans, and in many future cases we will need to safeguard, hedge or kind of ‘national-parkize’ those human idiosyncrasies so that they are not diminished or even eradicated by the tendency of technology to present itself as a solution to everything. As I like to say: for every amazing algorithm we need to strengthen our already existing androrithm. “Computers are stupid – they only provide answers” (Picasso) Computers are for answers, humans are for questions (Kevin Kelly). A person that meets me in a hallway somewhere needs an average of 1.4 seconds to gain some kind of basic understanding about me, even without speaking – a computer still does not really understand my values and feelings after it has ingested my entire browsing and social network history of the past 7 years (an estimated 200 Million data points).Īndrorithms include human traits such as empathy, compassion, creativity, story-telling and soon to be relicts such as mystery, serendipity, mistakes and secrets. A super-computer can win in chess or GO but can currently not talk to a 2-year old. I use the term to describe what really matters for most of us: human ‘rhythms’ not machine rhythms i.e. This is a key neologism in the book (i.e. Humanity: The coming clash between man and machine Read the exclusive preview PDF: Technology-vs.-Humanity- Gerd Leonhard Preview In his latest book ‘Technology vs. Watch Gerd’s first episode on Technology vs Humanity of his new video series entitled ‘conversations with Gerd’ see are short films with interviews on key topics such as technology versus humanity, digital transformation, the future of the internet, exponential change, artificial intelligence, the future of work and much more.One of the powerful key memes from my Technology vs Humanity book are androrithms.

This is a key neologism in the book (i.e.

One of the powerful key memes from the Technology vs Humanity book are androrithms.

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