Gerd Leonhardtechnology-vs-humanity is a musician, keynote speaker and futurist with over 300 clients, 1,500 engagements and over a million people of combined audience at venues across the world. Gerd is most recently the author of a brand new book titled Technology vs Humanity: The Coming Clash Between Man and Machine and, as someone who puts stress on ethics in his work as a futurist, I thought he would make a great interviewee on Singularity.FM. So check out his interview and let me know what you think!
During our 90 min discussion with Gerd Leonhard we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: why Gerd considers himself a humanist and a traveller; his journey from theology and philosophy through music and entrepreneurship and into foresight and futurism; starting a Spotify-type of a company 10 years too early and writing his bestseller book The Future of Music; the idea of merging with machines and his latest book Technology vs Humanity; whether we want Silicon Valley and DARPA to determine the future of humanity; why technology is not enough and the need for digital ethics; political referendums, universal basic income and technological unemployment; his concept of CORE vs the popular STEM; capitalism, abundance and profit…
Just some of the quotes that I will take away from this conversation with Gerd Leonhard are:
“The biggest danger is not that machines will kill us… or replace us. The biggest danger is that we become like the machines.”
“Embrace technology but do not become it!”
“The future belongs to those who can hear it coming” [David Bowie]
You can watch the full video interview here: https://www.singularityweblog.com/gerd-leonhard-on-technology-vs-humanity/
