This week: the battle of the giants, what’s up with Bitcoin, and avocado innovation. 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 battle of the tech giants 

Bitcoin and energy futures

Stoneless avocados

 

Other stories we bring up:

Frightful 5

Google and Amazon in bitter feud

Amazon is bumping into Microsoft with ‘Alexa for Business’

Digg.com – Bitcoin value, what the heck

Bitcoin parody

Bitcoin “a dangerous bubble”

Is Bitcoin a huge bubble?

Bitcoin price soars

Bitcoin bulls and bears

Why the biggest Bitcoin mines are in China

The Bitcoin whales

Bitcoin ‘Ought to Be Outlawed’

People react to stoneless avocados

 

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This week: the battle of the giants, what's up with Bitcoin, and avocado innovation. 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.

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sbi.sydney.edu.au/future-week-15-december-2017/.

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This week: building the digital Silk Road, brands in the age of Amazon, and my robot friend. 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:

China’s ‘Digital Silk Road’

Amazon and low price innovation

Your pal Kuri

Other stories we bring up:

China inches toward AI supremacy

The coming trade war over data

Amazon and Google are in a bitter feud

The Future, This Week Amazon special

 

Robot of the week:

Kuri

 

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This week: building the digital Silk Road, brands in the age of Amazon, and my robot friend. 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:

China’s ‘Digital Silk Road’

Amazon and low price innovation

Your pal Kuri

Other stories we bring up:

China inches toward AI supremacy

The coming trade war over data

Amazon and Google are in a bitter feud

The Future, This Week Amazon special

 

Robot of the week:

Kuri

 

You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard, Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au.

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This week: building the digital Silk Road, brands in the age of Amazon, and my robot friend. 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.

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http://sbi.sydney.edu.au/future-week-08-december-2017/.

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Rachel Botsman is a best-selling author, her TED Talk views are in the millions, she lectures at Oxford University on the sharing economy, and her new book "Who can you trust?" seeks to change our perception of trust. Today we talk to Rachel about whether we are on the cusp of one of the biggest social transformations in human history.

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This week: cities creating real kerb appeal, Meetup at work, and quantum bits. 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.

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http://sbi.sydney.edu.au/the-future-this-week-01-december-2017/.

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This week: cities creating real kerb appeal, Meetup at work, and quantum bits. 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:

Watch the curb

WeWork to buy Meetup

University of Sydney researchers build amazing quantum computing stuff

Other stories we bring up:

National Association of City Transportation Officials curbside management white paper

Why WeWork is buying Meetup

Coworking Spaces Australia 2017 report

Interview with Tim Mahlberg on GCUC Radio

USyd scientist make microwave circulators

Some background on Quantum Computing

The University of Sydney Nano Institute

 

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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.

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sbi.sydney.edu.au/future-week-24-november-2017/.

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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

 

You can subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Libsyn or wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow us online on Flipboard, Twitter, or sbi.sydney.edu.au.

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