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What Gerd means by "Too much of a Good Thing can be a very bad thing"

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What Gerd means by "Too much of a Good Thing can be a very bad thing"

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#technology #metaverse: Too much of a good thing can be a very bad thing! #Futurist  Gerd Leonhard

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" digitalethics [Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker]

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Futurist, Humanist, Keynote Speaker, Author and Film-Maker: Gerd is CEO of the The Futures Agency and the global expert and presenter for Technology and Humanity, Digital Ethics, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transforming

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The use of Technology and Social Media

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" Facebook: The Largest Autocracy on Earth ('The Atlantic). Gerd's high-lights 

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👉🏼 Facebook is the Largest Autocracy on Earth, says The Atlantic

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👉🏼 Facebook is the Largest Autocracy on Earth, says The Atlantic

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"Mark Zuckerberg, unlike Einstein, did not dream up Facebook out of a sense of moral duty, or a zeal for world peace. This summer, the population of Zuckerberg's supranational regime reached 2.9 billion monthly active users, more humans than live in the world's two most populous nations-China and India-combined. (...) This is plain to see in its single-minded focus on its own expansion; its immunity to any sense of civic obligation; its record of facilitating the undermining of elections; its antipathy toward the free press; its rulers' callousness and hubris; and its indifference to the endurance of American democracy."

Read more via 'The Atlantic'

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" Facebook: The Largest Autocracy on Earth ('The Atlantic). Gerd's high-lights [Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker]

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"Mark Zuckerberg, unlike Einstein, did not dream up Facebook out of a sense of moral duty, or a zeal for world peace. This summer, the population of Zuckerberg's supranational regime reached 2.9 billion monthly active users, more humans than live in the world's two most populous nations-China and India-combined. (...)

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👀 Gerd Leonhard's CNN Money interview discussing Facebook

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👀 Gerd Leonhard's CNN Money interview discussing Facebook

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CNN Money Switzerland March 20 2018 Gerd Leonhard Interview on Social Media and Facebook

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The externalities of technology Futurist Gerd Leonhard excerpt of the Future of social media 

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💬 What Gerd means by 'technology pollution' and the externalities of technology

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💬 What Gerd means by 'technology pollution' and the externalities of technology

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The externalities of technology #Futurist Gerd Leonhard comments on the #Future of #socialmedia (2)

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Futurist Gerd Leonhard excerpt on the future of social media 

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This 👎🏼 or 👍🏼 That? What do we want our Future to be?

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This 👎🏼 or 👍🏼 That? What do we want our Future to be?

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What kind of future do you want? #Futurist Gerd Leonhard comments on the future of #socialmedia (1)

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Futurist Gerd Leonhard's highlights of a timely piece by The Atlantic, in 2019

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🖍"Is Social Media Ruining Political Discourse (must-read via The Atlantic)"  

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🖍"Is Social Media Ruining Political Discourse (must-read via The Atlantic)"  

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Is Social Media Ruining Political Discourse (must-read via The Atlantic)

GREAT READ, provocative stuff - thanks Jay-David.

"YouTube is designed to catch you and not let go. Sometimes I access the site just to watch one thing, but then one of the related videos catches my eye. I watch that one, then another and another, and soon a five-minute visit has stretched far longer. If it's half an hour of movie trailers, then I'm just indulging in a guilty pleasure. But what if I followed a link to " Q-The Plan to Save the World" and wound up staying for one outlandish conspiracy video after another? YouTube's associative linking is designed to keep me clicking and watching. It has turned into a mechanism for political indoctrination , suggesting through sheer repetition that an international cabal is threatening to take over the world"

(Gerd) The FLOW concept is really useful:

"Propaganda is nothing new; it has appeared in pamphlets, books, and newspapers practically since the invention of the printing press. But social media seem particularly susceptible to spreading disinformation. That's because social media engage viewers in a way that designers call "flow," a psychological idea adopted as a digital-design strategy by video games. Flow focuses on keeping the user moving from one element to the next, repetitively, in search of gratification from the act of consuming media rather than from engaging with its content. When programs such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are used for political messaging, they bring flow along into the political process, even if the messages they carry are truthful and nonconspiratorial. That makes these media a threat to coherent political discourse from the age of print."

Read more: Social Media Are Ruining Political Discoure by JAY DAVID BOLTER
Social Media and why I left Facebook

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" Is Social Media Ruining Political Discourse (must-read via The Atlantic) [Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker]

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GREAT READ, provocative stuff - thanks Jay-David. "YouTube is designed to catch you and not let go. Sometimes I access the site just to watch one thing, but then one of the related videos catches my eye. I watch that one, then another and another, and soon a five-minute visit has stretched far longer.

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"Too much of a good thing can be a very bad thing" Futurist Gerd Leonhard on the future of social media (excerpt)

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✍🏼 Social Media these days: That is not what we signed up for...

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✍🏼 Social Media these days: That is not what we signed up for...

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"Too much of a good thing can be a very bad thing" #Futurist Gerd Leonhard on #socialmedia (4)

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Futurist Gerd Leonhard comments on the future of social media 

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🛢 Is Social Media becoming the same as Big Oil?

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🛢 Is Social Media becoming the same as Big Oil?

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#Socialmedia too much like BigOil? #Futurist Gerd Leonhard comments on the future of socialmedia (3)

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Why #digitalethics is now mission-critical: Futurist  Gerd Leonhard Entel Chile talk

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🔫 What Facebook is doing to distort our society (Spanish subtitles)

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🔫 What Facebook is doing to distort our society (Spanish subtitles)

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Why #digitalethics is now mission-critical: Futurist #keynotespeaker Gerd Leonhard Entel Chile talk

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Must Watch! 👀 The Future of Social Media (full keynote)

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Must Watch! 👀 The Future of Social Media (full keynote)

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Must-watch: Future of #SocialMedia #Futurist #KeynoteSpeaker Gerd Leonhard's Keynote NEC Forum'21 PT

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Very timely blog post by Futurist Gerd Leonhard, from 2018

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🤓 Read 👉🏼 "Facebook is no longer ‘social’ anything..."

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🤓 Read 👉🏼 "Facebook is no longer ‘social’ anything..."

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» Facebook is no longer ‘social’ anything – it’s an AI-platform that needs to be regulated (updated) [Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker]

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Last year’s reports that some apparently well-funded Russian entities used Facebook to systemically disseminate fake news and seed widespread dissent during the 2016 U.S. elections is not only worrisome because of the damage that is being done to the democratic process, the impact on the credibility…

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GerdTalks Episode 3: Future of Meta/Facebook Social Media KEYNOTE (Audio) 

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🎧 Listen to GerdTalks Ep 3, on SoundCloud

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🎧 Listen to GerdTalks Ep 3, on SoundCloud

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GerdTalks Episode 3 Futurist Gerd Leonhard: Future of Meta/Facebook Social Media KEYNOTE (Audio) by FuturistGerd

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This is the Audio-version only of GerdTalks Episode 3, live-streamed on Youtube, LinkedIn, Twitch and many other platforms (not on Facebook:).  More details: https://www.futuristgerd.com/gerdtalks3
Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/HNUUNKMQzTc

Facebook / META has become toxic and needs to be purged. In this video I present my case against FB/Meta and explore the future of social media. 

AI-fuelled, data-driven and automated 'media' has become extremely powerful and omni-present in our lives. Digital feudalism is the new normal, and the surveillance economy is pervasive. Facebook/Meta is the prime example of what goes wrong when algorithms, an obsession with monetisation and a general lack of respect for human principles and ethics run the show.

Meta/FB's increasing power and enormous technological prowess have resulted in rampant manipulation, fast-spreading misinformation, a boom in fake news, reality distortions and half-truths, and generally have amplified a feeling of despondency and loneliness among many of it's users (particularly on Instagram). 

On top of this FB/Meta represents the most perfect surveillance machine ever invented - and we've all been sucked into accepting this as 'normal'.   And now, meta-master Zuck wants us to follow him into his glorious Metaverse, where we can be anyone, anywhere, anytime, and literally live in his perfect simulations.  Who needs that messy real-life when you can have a perfect virtual life, anyway?

I have a hunch that the Metaverse might turn out to be everything we've ever wanted, but will offer little of what we really NEED. In this video, I contemplate the implications and consequences of the concept that the Metaverse is the next edition of social media (and indeed the Internet)... only 100x as troublesome.

In this video I also address the overall challenges of social media such as the many side-effects of AI-based content automation, and the aberrations resulting from what I call 'digital obesity' and excessive FOMO. 

I have come to the conclusion that too many social media companies - and particularly FB/Meta - have become a lot like 'Big Oil' - the externalities of their activities are not their concern; let someone else worry about them!   

I believe that we are facing a new threat of 'digital pollution' on top of the environmental pollution we have already caused - and that this has even more potential to damage our societies.

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👀 Watch GerdTalks Ep 3 on the Future of Facebook/ Meta

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👀 Watch GerdTalks Ep 3 on the Future of Facebook/ Meta

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#GerdTalks 3:  The Future of Facebook/Meta and #socialmedia Futurist Gerd Leonhard Live-Stream EDIT