Be optimistic and create #thegoodfuture - because your attitude contains your Future. Gerd Leonhard
Channel: Gerd Leonhard
Date: 2022-08-02

“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 is better than we think
04:32 - What GenY thinks about climate change 
06:35 - Bad news spreads 6-6x faster: social media needs to reboot
09:24 - Trusting the future: optimism is a choice!
12:58 - We have all the tools but we must work on the telos
14:16 - We are at THE fork in the road moment in human history
 
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Have a look at my new short film: The Good Future 
https://www.thegoodfuturefilm.com  and
http://www.weneedtotalkaboutai.com 
http://www.howthefutureworks.tv
http://www.thegoodfutureexplained.com
Read:  http://www.thegreatreduction.com 

We live in a Perma-Change World, and lately an increasingly pessimistic view of the future as well as strange new hopelessness seems to prevail - especially among the Gen Z & Y generations. There are many reasons for this - beyond covid19 or the Russia/Ukraine war - but one reason may also be that the narrative about the future is dominated either by Big Tech (Meta, Google, IBM, Amazon, Baidu etc) or by Hollywood (or rather "StreamyWood" i.e. Netflix et al).  It seems to either involve technology saving us (while we, the non-exponential, lame humans, must then merge with it), or technology enslaving us (as in the various black-mirror type dystopias).

I think this is a lousy way to look at the future, and that a more 'protopian' approach see #kevinkelly is much better suited for society, and for shaping our future. We also believe that how we look at the future is existential - as futurist Barbara Hubbard liked to say: 'As we see the future so we act; as we act so we become'.

Riffing off Antonio Gramsci's meme of "Pessimism of the intellect, and optimism of the mind", I am humbly presenting my views on why there is hope, and why the Good Future is entirely possible. Please comment and share, and of course... subscribe!

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Gerd Leonhard Futurist, Author and Keynote Speaker Zürich / Switzerland http://www.futuristgerd.com 

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