This week: nudge nudge Nobel Prize, the internet of creepy things, and Facebook enlists Wikipedia. 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:

Why Richard Thaler won the 2017 economics Nobel Prize

The eerie Google Clips camera

Facebook enlists Wikipedia

 

Other stories we bring up:

The problem with Nobel prizes and the myth of the lone genius

Thaler’s Save More Tomorrow paper

Thaler and Sunstein’s book Nudge

Wharton’s Katherine Milkman discusses the awarding of the Nobel Prize Richard Thaler

Big Think interview with Richard Thaler

Thaler wins Nobel prize 

Nudging, what works and why (not)

Johnson and Goldstein paper on default donation

Dan Ariely’s TED talk

Policymakers around the world embracing behavioural science

Low organ donation rates in Australia

NSW Government Behavioural Insights Unit

Mattel thinks again about AI babysitter 

Google’s new Earbuds instantly translate 40 languages

The Internet of Things is sending us back to the Middle Ages

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Robot of the week:

The Stormtrooper Robot

 

Join us and other University of Sydney researchers take education out of the classroom and into a bar:

Raising the Bar Sydney
25 October 2017
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