FOR THE
HUMAN FUTURE
Advocate for the Good Future. Keynote Speaker. Author. Public Thinker. Filmmaker.
Gerd Leonhard has spent over two decades making the case for humanity in the age of machines. This site feature his essays, keynotes, films, and dispatches from the front line of the future.
GERD’S THINKING
Six recurring threads run through Gerd’s work, his books, films, keynotes and talks — six ways of looking at the same question: What kind of future are we choosing – and will it be worth living in? Together these topics map the territory between today’s technological decisions and policies, and tomorrow’s human reality.
Latest Works
This is where you can browse Gerd’s latest essays and writings, videos and films, audio podcasts, images, graphics and many other resources. Gerd has published 100s of essays and articles as well as over 1500 videos during the past 22 years, many of which can be found using his AI search tools here. You can also search GerdFeed, his daily ‘what Gerd reads’ firehose here
GERD ON STAGE
Gerd speaks to audiences worldwide about the human future: keynotes, fireside chats, interviews, TV shows, podcasts, workshops, leadership sessions and board meetings, IRL (in real life) as well as online. He has reached over 3 Million people in more than 50 countries in the past decade, and his YouTube audience has grown to 429k subscribers.
About Gerd
Gerd Leonhard is not your typical techno-optimistic future thinker. He pursues practical wisdom and foregoes future-hype and buzzwords in favour of progressive humanism. Gerd zeroes in on what the future holds for humanity, and how we can create “The Good Future”. EQ meets IQ as Gerd blends futurism with humanism, algorithms with androrithms, science with imagination, and business with art.
