This week: two bots talk trash, modular design and drivers gaming Uber. 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:

Two bots talk trash and the world goes crazy

The modular future of design

Uber drivers ‘secretly colluding’ to cause price surges

 

Other stories we bring up:

Facebook manages to shut down chatbot just before it could become evil 

No, Facebook did not panic

Fear of a Robot Planet

The Uber study by researchers Mareike Möhlmann and Ola Henfridsson, from Warwick Business School, and Lior Zalmanson

How Uber ‘psychological tricks’ drive drivers 

The gamification of UBER

Why work gamification is a bad idea

 

Our robot of the week:

Eagle Prime

Watch Eagle Prime in action here

 

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