Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker
The Good Future: A film by Futurist Gerd Leonhard
The future is not something that just happens to us – it is something we create every single day, by action or by inaction. Whether the future is good or bad is entirely up to us. And most importantly: As we see the future, so we act, as we act so we become! As a Futurist and Keynote Speaker I talk to many people from all over the world and from all walks of life, and in the past few years I have noticed an increased proliferation of a rather negative view of the future.
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Taking Back Tomorrow: Power, AI, and the Future of Humanity: Powerful Keynote #futuristgerd
Thanks to @elpais for inviting me -- this was a great event, see https://futuristgerd.com/elpais for more details NEW: Spanish Overdub using @Rask_ai https://youtu.be/y1FWXWdlskY?si=LrXtcFkqd2TGrJsj NEW: Italian AI Overdub via @Descript https://youtu.be/xvg1MyJf2x0?si=4Lj2XnsVEZ6zMU7W We’re standing at a historic pivot point where mind-boggling scientific breakthroughs collide with geopolitical chaos, and autocratic tendencies. We are facing a tough fork in the road: a future of unlimited cl
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How the U.S. has lost the plot on The Good Future, and why Europe needs to #takebacktomorrow today
This presentation is an excerpt from a recent online event I did with @LondonFuturists see https://youtu.be/0WgaL3QKCDo?si=0P6D_SwWYIm4QEDv for the entire show (a must watch!) In this hard-hitting presentation I reflect on the shifts in global futures over the 2 years, emphasizing the emergence of what I call 'the bad future' see www.thebadfuture.com for more details - it's the antidote to my core theme of #thegoodfuture :) I speak about key challenges such as the rapid and painful degradat
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The Good Future: Balancing Humanity and Technology, HI and AI
This is an edited recording of my keynote at the AmCham Bulgaria Vision 2050 event in Sofia, on Nov 6, 2025, see https://amcham.bg/events/amcham-bulgaria-30th-anniversary-business-forum/ A big thank-you to@amchambulgaria2697 for inviting me. You can download the slides via https://amcham.bg/2025/11/09/amcham-bg-30-years-vision-2050-forum-overview/ ! The next 10 years will bring more change than the last 100. Nuclear fusion, renewable energy, AI that can learn and “think,” genetic engineering,
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Beyond AI: What really matters for The Good Future?
We are standing at a crossroads unlike any before — between humans and machines, optimism and fear, heaven and hell. In this energizing keynote, futurist Gerd Leonhard challenges the doom-and-gloom narrative surrounding artificial intelligence, climate change, and global politics. Instead of asking “What will the future do to us?”, he asks the better question: “What kind of future do we want to create?” Gerd explores seven powerful game-changers — from quantum computing to synthetic biology — s
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The next 10 years: Yes, the Good Future is possible!
Here is the recording of my keynote at the @ARAG Access to Justice Conference in Amsterdam, April 19, 2024 see https://www.arag.com/en/press/pressreleases/group/00688/ A big thanks also to @Xsaga1000 GERMAN overdub now available on my German YT channel: https://youtu.be/RJj_eUCKxT8?si=AhJHXG7mIxlDl2gp #techvshuman #thegoodfuture #publicthinker In this talk, I set forth that the future is better than we often think, despite the recent events that may challenge this outlook. As a futurist, my
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Must-watch! The Good Future: Futurist Gerd Leonhard's Riveting 2023 TedX Talk. Technology & Humanity
This is an edited version of my June 10, 2023, TEDx talk in Cluj, Romania, with much improved sound and various oohs and ahs removed using the amazing @Descript app. The original TEDx version is here https://youtu.be/B1Fx8LKgQ70?si=4JJU03Qa3pUhmpHD. Leading Futurist Gerd Leonhard presents a riveting talk on the future of technology, artificial intelligence, jobs, work, and education. In this talk, Gerd outlines why too much of a good thing (such as exponential technologies) can be a very bad t
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Protopia: Building The Good Future: Yes we can! Futurist Gerd Leonhard's powerful online keynote
The future is not written—it’s a choice. In this talk, I explore why #thegoodfuture is entirely possible and how we can build it—step by step, painfully, but surely. #protopia not dystopia @KevinKelly From solving climate change to wrestling with the rise of artificial intelligence, the next ten years will bring more change than the last 100 years. Will we let technology dictate our destiny, or will we use wisdom, ethics, Telos, and collaboration to shape a future worth living in? We’re standi
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Is The Good Future cancelled? Gerd Leonhard on the Bad Future, Geopolitics, AI (NotebookLM Take2)
**** To read my Bad Future appeal, please visit https://thebadfuture.com/ *** This video was created using @my.notebooklm Gerd Leonhard describes a fracturing global order where the United States has abdicated its traditional role as a stabilizing force, instead promoting "The Bad Future", defined by power and might over purpose, and transactional isolationism (see www.thebadfuture.com for details) In this current, dramatic geopolitical realignment, Gerd warns that American leadership is now
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Empowering Humanity Towards a Good Future | Gerd Leonhard, ep105
This week our guest is futurist and speaker, Gerd Leonhard, who authored the 2016 book Technology vs Humanity: The Coming Clash Between Man and Machine. In this episode, we explore the ideas Gerd puts forth in his book, with a heavy emphasis on how the humanities are a necessary part of what he calls a "Good Future.” This takes us on a tour of the failings of transhumanism, the need to update our regulatory systems, questions around our economic models, the impact of culture and storytelling on
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Why the next 5 years will break or remake humanity (Futurist Gerd Leonhard)
What if our obsession with profit is sabotaging our very survival? In this no-holds-barred video culled from a June 2025 interview in AbuDhabi, I explain why we need to shift from the outdated operating system of "profit and growth" to the new paradigm of what I call the 5Ps Economy: People, Planet, Purpose, Prosperity, and Peace, see #peopleplanetpurposeprosperity NEW: SPANISH DUB: https://youtu.be/wMg5leAsm1g?si=FEInqGNfi-LStPr_ I also touch on these topics: 🤖 Is AI our greatest servant—or
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The Good Future or the Bad Future? Europe must take a stand - Fight for The Good Future
In this hard-hitting new video, I start with the assertion that #thegoodfuture will no longer come from the United States. It is heart-wrenching to observe that the U.S. is rapidly shifting toward what can only be called “the bad future”: power and might over purpose and collective benefit, reckless techno-optimism and greed fuelling a dangerous AI arms-race, and transactional, brute-force diplomacy over trust and collaboration. I see a strong connection between America's political decline int
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FBTB 2023: Gerd Leonhard – Designing The Good Future
We need to remember that the future is not something that just happens to us – it is something we design and create every single day, by action or by inaction. A Good Future is possible; it all depends on our choices. The Good Future will come down to our ethics and values, to global collaboration and to a collective definition of what kind of future we want (rather than what future we can have), and to reach a consensus on how to best achieve it. Gerd Leonhard will talk about technology and hu
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Be optimistic and create #thegoodfuture - because your attitude contains your Future. Gerd Leonhard
“We should be optimistic not because our problems are smaller than we thought, but because our capacity to solve them is larger than we thought” OVER THE LONG TERM, THE FUTURE IS DECIDED BY OPTIMISTS (Kevin Kelly) This is an excerpt of my recent GerdTalks episode 12, see www.gerdtalks.com for more details and https://youtu.be/nH5iuLZYUkY for the entire show's recording (only my presentation is shown here). 00:00 - Introduction 00:25 - Business as usual is dead or dying 02:44 - The future
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The Good Future: A Film by Futurist Gerd Leonhard
In this film, Futurist Gerd Leonhard speaks about why we are at such a crucial moment in human history, why our current economic story and logic won’t work in the future, and why we need to move on from a focus on profit and growth to a focus on people, planet, purpose and prosperity. He then describes what a Good Future could actually look like, and depicts 5 scenarios in food, energy, education, healthcare and work. Then, he talks about what leaders in business and politics can do to create a