A quick look into the idea of treating your personal data as labour, and turning the benefit of data use back to the user.

What is it like shopping in an automated store? Both Amazon and Alibaba have implemented grocery stores where no cashiers are needed, and technologies like facial recognition enable automated payments. What is it like using these stores and are they the future?

What are the arguments for and against UBI, the impact that Covid has had, as well as the numerous pilot studies that have happened across the world and what we can learn from them?

Hilde Latour, the Vice-Chair Basic Income Earth Network, comes onto the podcast this week to discuss these points and more.

Kyle Cobb, Co-founder and CFO of Advanced.Farm discusses the impact that autonomous harvesting will have on farmers, workers, and agriculture in general.

What are the differences between how AI is being developed and implemented in Europe as compared to China or the US? What are the challenges and future of AI in Europe. Philipp Slusallek of DFKI and I discuss the issues around European AI today.

With Bitcoin now in legal use across El Salvador what does this mean for the rest of Latin America and the world?

Giorgio Tarraf, Technology Intelligence Director of L'Atelier BNP Paribas comes onto the podcast to discuss the virtual economy, a new emerging space that exists outside of the real economy, and why it will be important for the future of work, address inequality, and what opportunities there are for people today.

One of the growing challenges for the space industry is tracking both satellites and debris to avoid collisions, which gets more problematic every year as more satellites enter the earth's orbit. To explain how this will play out, the industry, potential job impact, and future vision is Araz Feyzi Co-founder and CTO of Kayhan Space.

As our world becomes both more digitised and more automated, data is becoming more and more central to the way the world operates, and thus vulnerability in both our businesses and personal lives needs to be taken more seriously

How is AI and Robotics changing recycling and waste management? Eric Camirand of Waste Robotics explains the impact that technology is having on waste sorting and the future of circularity.