This week: electrify everything, crows nipping butts, and ethical German cars. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own spin on news that is impacting the future of business in The Future, This Week.

 

The stories this week

To battle climate change, electrify everything

A crazy plan to bribe crows to clean up cigarette butts

Germany first to adopt ethical rules for automated vehicles

 

Other stories we bring up:

Every object can be a solar generator

Transparent solar panels

The crowbar project

Crows are intelligent animals

From imagination to innovation

The original ethics guidelines document (in German) 

The ethics guidelines document in English

Germany drafts world first ethical guidelines

 

Robot of the week:

Sophia, Saudi citizen

Pretending to give a robot citizenship helps no one

NEOM – Saudi Arabia’s futuristic city

 

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