Gerd Leonhard opens the closet and rattles some scary skeletons. Nobody can stop technology and few are asking what its long term effects will be on our species. This is a sobering look at the unbreakable, unstoppable symbiosis between human beings and technology. Roland Sullivan, Organization Development and change pioneer since 1962. We must have a global dialogue on the ethics of technology and ensuring that humanness is over technology.īuy it. As one of the first ethics professors on organization change, Gerd is right.

I believe it’s a must read for anyone interested in job security as well parents who care about preparing their children for the future. This book, is a great distillation of Gerd'‘s thinking. Very importantly, I utilize his wisdom to wake up my clients around the world so they get serious about immediately transforming their entire enterprise to deal with the exponential change that is here. Humanity and is the most inspiring, relevant, research based, credible, ethical, future as now and positive book that I ever read. Speaking authoritatively as one of the few 100 original Change Agents, I say that Mr. I loved how well it resonated with my own thinking about. I highly recommend it to anyone reading this review too. I've already recommended this book to dozens of peers and just people I've met on a plane, in the gym, at a conference. While this book won't stop anyone (except the paranoid and fearful) from becoming entrapped in the allure of technology's 'magic,' it does offer a very easy read for non-techies to ask critical questions that most of us (and especially our leaders) don't seem to have to time for. I can't help but think that Einstein, Oppenheimer, and others felt about the A-bomb. Maybe, just maybe this is how our ancestors felt the 1st time medicine was delivered to save a dying child or Newton tested gravity. We're headed into uncharted waters - or at least I think we are.

One of my biggest take-aways was that I was on the right track asking 'just because we can, should we?' And as an entrepreneur fascinated by change and innovation, I lean toward saying 'do it' if you can. Leonhard presents a very nice balance between the media's dystopian outlook and Singularity's almost god-like portrayal. a practical approach to starting critical conversations about how technology is changing and likely disrupting humanity. Is Technology vs Humanity the holy grail? Absolutely not (as a few of the other reviewers apparently expected it to be.) But it was exactly what I was looking for. In fact, I've probably read most of it twice and some chapters 3 times. While I probably read 2 or more dozen articles daily, I rarely read a book cover-to-cover. I love this book which is really something for me to stay. While I've only owned this book a week, it's been worn hard. A GREAT book! Should be mandatory reading for all execs, workers, parents, politicians.

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