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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This week: nudge nudge Nobel Prize, the internet of creepy things, and Facebook enlists Wikipedia. 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-13-october-2017/.

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This week: nudge nudge Nobel Prize, the internet of creepy things, and Facebook enlists Wikipedia. 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:

Why Richard Thaler won the 2017 economics Nobel Prize

The eerie Google Clips camera

Facebook enlists Wikipedia

 

Other stories we bring up:

The problem with Nobel prizes and the myth of the lone genius

Thaler’s Save More Tomorrow paper

Thaler and Sunstein’s book Nudge

Wharton’s Katherine Milkman discusses the awarding of the Nobel Prize Richard Thaler

Big Think interview with Richard Thaler

Thaler wins Nobel prize 

Nudging, what works and why (not)

Johnson and Goldstein paper on default donation

Dan Ariely’s TED talk

Policymakers around the world embracing behavioural science

Low organ donation rates in Australia

NSW Government Behavioural Insights Unit

Mattel thinks again about AI babysitter 

Google’s new Earbuds instantly translate 40 languages

The Internet of Things is sending us back to the Middle Ages

The Future, This Week 06 October 2017

The Future, This Week 28 April 2017

The Future, This Week 18 August 2017

Linsey Pollak, learn how to make carrot instruments

 

Robot of the week:

The Stormtrooper Robot

 

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

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

 

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This week: the algorithm is innocent, Australians in space, and the licence to watch. 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-06-october-2017/.

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This week: the algorithm is innocent, Australians in space, and the licence to watch. 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 algorithm is innocent

Australia gets its own space agency

Federal government makes push for states to hand over drivers’ licences

 

Other stories we bring up:

Outline hires tech news prodigy William Turton

Gawker reporter is a high school senior

Working as intended (or is it?)

Facebook’s response to fake Russian ads

Politicized fake news about Las Vegas shooter

Who Will Take Responsibility for Facebook?

The Australian space agency

Not the Australian Research and Space Exploration agency

The space agency could play a vital role in inspiring students

Brisbane Girls Grammar School’s new observatory

All hail Elon Musk

Elon Musk now plans to send people to Mars in seven years

Moscow turns on facial recognition

Facial recognition at China beer festival

Face recognition is reshaping China’s tech scene

Privacy has taken a back seat amid the Opal debate

The Future, This Week 17 March 2017 featuring German space agency tomatoes

The Future, This Week 15 September 2017 featuring facial recognition

The Future, This Week 8 September 2017 featuring payment by face recognition

Linsey Pollak, learn how to make carrot instruments

 

Robot of the week:

Qoobo, the weird wagging cat tail robot

 

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This week: ATMs free at 50, animal tracking and big data, and science fiction. 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.

Show notes and links to this episode, including the news stories of the week, other stories we bring up and more are available at:
sbi.sydney.edu.au/future-week-29-september-2017/.

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This week: ATMs free at 50, animal tracking and big data, and science fiction. 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:

Australian banks ditch ATM fees

The golden age of animal tracking

How to write a story set 125 years in the future

 

Other stories we bring up:

Australian carrot oversupply

Linsey Pollak, learn how to make carrot instruments

The ATM turns 50

ATM innovation

ATMs on wheels in Japan

Your phone will replace the ATM

Australia will be a cashless society 

New payments platform

China’s digital economy

Science and art of animal tracking 

GPS tracking for animal welfare 

Future of healthcare event

The Charles Perkins Centre

Science fiction authors shaping the future

Predicting the future in 1967

Keith Logan is looking for a Chief Sci-Fi Officer

 

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This week: when intuition saves the world, the data science of winemaking, and robolawyers…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 man who saved the world

The winery of the future

Replacing lawyers with robots

 

Other stories we bring up:

Stanislav Petrov

The man who saved the world featuring Kevin Costner

Gary Klein’s book “The Power of Intuition: How to use your gut feelings to make better decisions at work”

Gary Klein’s book “Seeing what others don’t: the remarkable ways we gain insights

High-tech winemaking

MIT’s Frank Levy and Dana Remus’s forthcoming paper ‘Can Robots be Lawyers’

TFTW episode on robolawyers

 

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: when intuition saves the world, the data science of winemaking, and robolawyers...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.

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

Show notes and links to this episode, including the news stories of the week, other stories we bring up and more are available at:
sbi.sydney.edu.au/future-week-22-september-2017/.

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This week: update my car, your phone will see you now, and power to the hackers. 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.

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

Show notes and links to this episode, including the news stories of the week, other stories we bring up and more are available at:
sbi.sydney.edu.au/future-week-15-september-2017/.

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