About primates, ventriloquism, the first public robotaxi fleet and some world records. And a few podcast tips!
Enterprise Garage Newsletter | October 9th, 2020
Are you intelligent enough for AI?
Some years ago, the Dutch primatologist Frans de Waal wrote a book entitled "Are we smart enough to understand how smart animals are?" Given our irrationality and sometimes open stupidity, he came to the unflattering conclusion: meeeh!
With artificial intelligence other fears arise. Will it become so intelligent that it will subjugate us, or will it destroy us immediately? Or are we so stupid and slow for an AI that it considers us nothing more than something like a goldfish is to us, to whom we also do not really attempt read some Shakespeare. Will AI just ignore us?
As always with such new and seemingly complex technology subjects, about which we know still little, moral entrepreneurs emerge, who warn us of alleged ethical problems and imagine horror scenarios that machines will decide over us all well-being and about our life and death. As soon as one begins to dig into the topic, we notice, what nonsense these warners spread.
Instead of bothering with long-haired philosophers (link) and pundits without any idea of what's really cooking, I am trying to get an understanding, what exactly prevents us from approaching technology with a more open mindset: The Modern Anti-Renaissance.
Who are going to be the car makers of the future? And why is it all so difficult for the traditional makers to move into the new automotive world? Well, I have written exactly about that already some time ago and now it's happening. I want to suggest my book, which hit the book stores this past October:
The Last Driver's License Holder
Has Already Been Born
The book deals with many aspects of the technological and demographic changes and what it means for car companies, our societies, cities, regions, and jobs. The book's available on Amazon or at any book store.
Articles & News
Here is a collection of interesting articles and blogs:
“You can't build up a reputation on what you are going to do.”
― Henry Ford
In my Foresight-Mindset-Workshops I teach how to forecast the future and realize your own dream. Such a team-workshop includes the following topics, including many tasks in small groups:
Five phases of the Foresight Mindset Cycle
What is Foresight?
Forecast versus Prediction
What are Signals and Trends?
What are Cassandras?
Introduction to the methods
Future Benchmarking
Futures Wheel
Scenario Planing
Backcasting
Messages from the Future
Storytelling
Trend Recognition
...
Foresight Mindset as strategic discipline
Where does Foresight fail and how can we avoid that?
Ethical questions about Foresight Mindset
The aim of the workshop is not only to have understood the foresight methods, but also to have scenarios and a feeling of a better overview of the future and the necessary steps and procedures. If you are interested in further workshops with 10-30 participants, then let's talk about it. Just send me an email.
Family Photo of my Books
Here is a family photo of some of my books, the ones I wrote (without anthologies) and published since 2016.
Keynotes & Workshops
If you are interested, here is the overview of my upcoming keynotes and workshops (with videos of past presentations). The topics are based on my books and are
