The Future, This Year: the most interesting, the weird and the wonderful, what’s in store for 2018, and a Christmas story. 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.

 

Some of the stories this year:

Big design, keeping up with blockchain, how computers change us and goodbye Walt 

Is Silicon Valley sexism a feature or a bug, why your TV might be spying on you, and fake milk

Electrify everything, crows nipping butts, and ethical German cars

Why the hard questions go unanswered, the road for self-driving cars seems rockier than we thought, and robolawyers

Scary tales about superhuman robots, a global waste blockage, and tricking cars

Inventors vs innovators, what drones are for, and the self-proclaimed Space Nation

Privacy (what privacy?), mind control games, and boring innovation

Pay with a smile, fake reviews and regulating AI

Re-cycling data, Watson’s health problems, and shop the look on Spotify

The Frightful Five, white men designing apps, and the ten thousand phones enslaved to like you

How Elon Musk wants to save us from the AI apocalypse, the role of smart phones in planned parenthood, farmers hacking tractors, and Trump’s burning tweets

China’s Digital Silk Road

Squeezed out: widely mocked startup Juicero is shutting down

Bosch’s giant robot can punch weeds to death

Dutch police to stop using drone-hunting eagles

Nvidia’s new AI creates disturbingly convincing fake videos

AI will make it easy to create fake porn of anyone

A Christmas story

 

The 2017 Juicero Award:

Juicero

 

The 2017 Robot of the Year:

A robot burning Donald Trump’s tweets

How Elon Musk wants to save us from the AI apocalypse, the role of smart phones in planned parenthood, farmers hacking tractors, and Trump’s burning tweets

 

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