The Future, This Week

This week: it really is a Musk when Elon becomes Twitter’s largest shareholder and gets a seat on the board.

Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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.

You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/elon-musk-buys-twitter-well-sort-of/

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This week: the world’s leading suppliers of neon are in Ukraine, and that threatens to make the ongoing microchip shortage even worse.

Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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.

You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/neon-and-chip-shortages/

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This week: we discuss the economics and business behind the New York Times’ decision to buy popular internet game Wordle.

Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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.

You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/new-york-times-gets-wordle/

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This week: fake fact-checking videos take disinformation to a different level. For MisinfoDay we talk to expert Jevin West from the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public.

Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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.

You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/fake-fact-checking-and-disinformation/

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On this IWD why cybersecurity needs more women and what we can do about it with expert Dr Meraiah Foley.

Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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.

You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/cybersecurity-and-women/

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This week: the future of wine is bleak because of millennials, climate, tariffs and taxes; and more remote work and fake companies.

Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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.

You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/the-future-of-wine-and-some-remote-work-stuff/

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This week: what is the future of universities? As the sector navigates disruption and uncertainty, special guest Professor Mark Scott AO, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Sydney joins us to discuss the future of higher education.

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This week: we’re on a break but we have something interesting in store for you, and it’s not about our longitudinal auto ethnographic research on leisure time, but rather how automation will make your job harder.

Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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.

You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/unlearn-automation-on-the-future-this-week/

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This week: how should we spend our time off? How making leisure time productive is making us efficient but also unhappy and what we can do about it.

Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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.

You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/making-leisure-work-on-the-future-this-week/

Subscribe to our new podcast, The Unlearn Project.

You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard, LinkedIn, Twitter and WeChat.

Send us your news ideas to [email protected]. We read your emails.

Music by Cinephonix.

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