This week: why exponential growth is big, remember eBay? and is Uber changing cities. 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:

Does our survival depend on relentless exponential growth?

Is eBay boring?

Is Uber changing cities?

 

Other stories we bring up:

Intel’s CEO, Brian Krzanich explains exponential growth

How to think exponentially

Don’t buy this jacket ad

Patagonia’s anti-growth strategy 

Tim Jackson’s book “Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet”

Tim Jackson talking about “Prosperity Without Growth”

Metrorail vs. Uber: travel time and cost study

Uber and Lyft haven’t changed cities yet

Robot of the week:

The world’s first giant robot duel, between Megabots, Inc. (USA) and Suidobashi Heavy Industry (Japan)

 

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

Raising the Bar Sydney
October 25, 2017
20 Talks, 10 Bars, 1 Night

 

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