This week: is the ivory tower asleep at the wheel, city experiments, and Uber…again. 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:

The Ivory Tower can’t keep ignoring tech – OpEd by Cathy O’Neil

Sidewalk Lab’s vision of a futuristic sci-fi-ready smart city 

Uber orders self-driving Volvos

Other stories we bring up:

Awake but not at the wheel – a response to Cathy O’Neil

Another response to Cathy O’Neil

Discussion on Twitter about the matter

Researchers at Microsoft and Google found the AI Now Institute

“Living with Monsters” Call for Papers for the IFIP8.2 Working Conference

Google wants to run cities without being elected

Putting cities back into “smart cities”

Building Googletown – Sidewalks Lab’s Quayside development

Bill Gates wants to build his own “smart city”

Bill Gates and the vision for Arizona

Tech billionaires spent $170 million on a new kind of school

Uber ordered a lot of cars, ABC News

Uber ordered a lot of cars, SMH

 

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