1/17/2024 0 Comments Gerd leonhard book![]() ![]() ![]() Yet at the same time, unhappiness appears to be rising around the world (as are mental health issues and opioid addiction), and the power-users of social networks are said to the highest suicide rate of any population segment. Yes, technology is great at giving us more or less hedonic pleasures such as free phone calls, access to unlimited music, TV Shows & films, networking opportunities for business or shopping online. Happiness is not a download, and it can’t be automated or digitized. I have spoken a lot about happiness in my talks since 2015, and it’s an important chapter in my book Technology vs Humanity. His diverse client list of over 300 companies includes UBS, Mastercard, Unilever, Lloyds Bank, WWF, Nokia, The Guardian, Google, Sony, Telkom Indonesia, Siemens, RTL, ITV, BBC, France Telecom, Orange, Deutsche Telekom, MTN, The Financial Times, DDB, Ogilvy, Omnicom, IPG, The EU Commission, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, VISA, and many others. Gerd is highly regarded as a global influencer and has advised many business leaders and government officials around the globe. Gerd’s keynotes, speeches and presentations are renowned for their hard-hitting and provocative yet inspiring, often humorous and always personal motivational style. He’s #21 on the global list of futurists. In 2015, Wired Magazine listed Gerd as #88 of the top 100 influencers in Europe. In 2006, The Wall Street Journal called Gerd ‘one of the leading Media Futurists in the World’. ![]() Gerd is considered a leading voice on a wide range of topics including digital transformation and the opportunity-challenges of the coming exponential society, a sustainable business and cultural ecology, social media and communications, TV / film, radio and broadcasting futures, mobile content and commerce, innovation, leadership and entrepreneurship, ‘hard-future’ consumer trends, human-machine futures and AI, cognitive computing, the IoT, big data and automation, next-generation advertising, marketing and branding, as well as sustainability and related ‘green future’ topics. Gerd is also the host of the web-TV series TheFutureShow and the CEO of TheFuturesAgency, a global network of over 30 leading futurists. He is the co-author of the best-selling book The Future of Music and the author of 5 other books including The Humanity Challenge (June 2016). Gerd is also an influential author, a sought-after executive ‘future trainer’ and a trusted strategic advisor. Gerd focusses on near-future, ‘nowist’ observations and actionable foresights in the sectors of humanity, society, business and commerce, media, technology and communications. Gerd Leonhard is a widely-known and top-rated futurist, with over 1500 engagements in 50+ countries since 2004 and a combined audience of over 1 million people. ![]()
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