Portrait
The Futurist
What are the major drivers of change these days?
Who or what will decide about our future?
Christopher Patrick Peterka is a futurist, entrepreneur and investor with almost 25 years of experience in the futuristic sector.
As an advisor, speaker and interview partner he inspires, surprises and challenges the audience.
His particular interest is dedicated to the new rules in the economy and society of the Digital Modern Era.
Is your company ready for the digital future and its consequences?
GOVERNMENT AS A SERVICE?
Digital Citizenship
In the Digital Modern Era, it’s perfectly possible to found a company and open a bank account in a country without ever physically entering it: given that a form of digital citizenship has been obtained there beforehand.
The nation of Estonia has proven that such a service is realisable even in full compliance with a strong EU regulatory environment. Explore with me the fascinating possibilities of digital citizenship and let’s look at the various approaches being developed globally.
What if we were to see even digital-only states sometime soon?
CYBORGISATION GETTING REAL
Transhumanism
Nanotechnology, biotechnology, brain-computer interfaces, the uploading of human consciousness into digital memories, super-intelligence, and cryonics have been developed to a degree that shows that human beings are moving beyond traditional natural limits.
Before we judge this development we might like to educate ourselves about the current situation. Let me share with you some insight and draw a bigger picture, so you can find a position for yourselves based on the latest information and historical context.
What questions need to be addressed and how quickly can we expect certain progress?
THE END OF PRIVACY
Ctrl+N: The Epochal Shift From Gutenberg To Zuckerberg
Are we about to leave the Gutenberg era behind us and enter the Digital Modern Era at the beginning of the 21st century?
Probably, we should then think harder about how to close the widening gap between traditional thought and power structures, as well as behavioural patterns and the new rule sets encoded in our digitally connected world.
I bring you seven theses about new thought and value patterns that we see as emerging as underlying fundaments for the Digital Modern Era.
AUTOMATISATION AND EMPATHY
Future Work
While we still strive for the adaption of traditional job profiles to the needs of digitisation, entirely new necessities show up. We’re even facing the imminent takeover of many jobs by machine automation.
How do we as human beings – i.e. in leadership – handle this?
This lecture offers a thematic overview, orientation by concrete examples and implies a collection of impulses to design a future strategy.
“FAKE NEWS” AND PROPRIETARY TRUTHS
Digital Ethics?
Nowadays we all have smartphones.
So we know how to work the digital reality? By no means, it seems.
New and urgent questions start to press us: What’s our data value? What does the filter bubble actually mean? How do we treat multinational conglomerates with their internet-based business models? What is the darknet?
Do we need a hippocratic oath for developers?
INNOVATION CULTURE VS. INNOVATION TECHNIQUE
Disruption?
Hardly a conference goes by without somebody proclaiming to “disrupt” themselves, or at least declare to incubate “disruptive business models” in the near future. What is actually behind these ideas? Is it about a certain technique or culture within an organisation that needs to be understood?
This talk gives insight into a leadership idea that favours disruption. It helps to prohibit false expectations and delivers recipes for a professional approach to an innovation management that hooks deeply into the promising market trends necessary to successfully develop future business.
RADICAL TRANSPARENCY
Corporate Responsibility in the Digital Modern Era
So-called “democratisation”, through ever wider internet access and massive online open classes (MOOC), has fostered the dissolution of former asymmetries in information distribution. Hacking culture also moves the paradigm from corporate discretion and secretiveness to ever more transparency. Even in terms of former highly sensitive information, such as salaries, companies today feel challenged by startups like Buffer that radically open publish the entire salary structure broken down to the individual employee. Generations of X, Y, or Z seem to find this attractive – and show their appreciation by coming onboard. This lecture takes on the tech- and data-driven challenges faced by organisations today in regard to ethics and responsibility, aiming at some professional inspiration to create future value in PR and HR.
