This week: two bots talk trash, modular design and drivers gaming Uber. 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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This week: two bots talk trash, modular design and drivers gaming Uber. 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:

Two bots talk trash and the world goes crazy

The modular future of design

Uber drivers ‘secretly colluding’ to cause price surges

 

Other stories we bring up:

Facebook manages to shut down chatbot just before it could become evil 

No, Facebook did not panic

Fear of a Robot Planet

The Uber study by researchers Mareike Möhlmann and Ola Henfridsson, from Warwick Business School, and Lior Zalmanson

How Uber ‘psychological tricks’ drive drivers 

The gamification of UBER

Why work gamification is a bad idea

 

Our robot of the week:

Eagle Prime

Watch Eagle Prime in action here

 

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This week: meet Mike, why electric cars are only getting greener and are digital natives real? 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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This week: meet Mike, why electric cars are only getting greener, and are digital natives real? 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:

Meet Mike

Greener electric cars

Digital natives are a myth

 

Other stories we bring up:

The electric car revolution

First Tesla Model 3 rolls off production line

Tesla’s Model 3 makes EVs successful

Tesla’s button-less dashboards

Elon Musk should leave the running of Tesla to someone else

Tesla is selling 1,800 Model 3 every day

Volvo hybrid or electrical by 2019

Britain is banning petrol and diesel cars by 2040

France is banning petrol and diesel cars by 2040

The myths of the digital native and the multitasker study

There are no digital natives 

Millennials are no better than their parents on technology

 

Our robot of the week:

Cartman wins RoboCup

 

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Social innovation addresses massive social problems, including urban transport, indigenous disadvantage, poverty, climate change or the refugee crisis. Where should the answers come from? Is there a hybrid approach beyond domestic policy, foreign aid or Corporate Responsibility Programs? To find out, we talk to Jarrod Ormiston, Assistant Professor in Social Entrepreneurship at the Maastricht Centre for Entrepreneurship at Maastricht University.

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This week: what happened while we were gone, real problems with AI, spying vacuums, and a suicidal robot. 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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Show notes and links to this episode, including the news stories of the week, other stories we bring up and more are available at: http://sbi.sydney.edu.au/future-week-28-july-2017/.

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This week: what happened while we were gone, real problems with AI, spying vacuums, and a suicidal robot. 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:

Elon is worried about killer robots

The real problems with AI

Roomba, the home mapping vacuum cleaner

 

Other stories we bring up:

AI and enormous data

Why AI is not colour blind

Google’s collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University paper

AI Now initiative

Cathy O’Neil’s book Weapons of Math Destruction

Do algorithms make better decisions? 

Roomba data will be sold to the highest bidder

How to Use iRobot Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum

 

Our robot of the week:

A Knightscope security robot

 

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Season 2 of The Future, This Week is coming next week! 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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Season 2 of The Future, This Week is coming next week! 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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For all of our Season 1 episodes of The Future, This Week see our playlists

Smart cities are anticipated to create huge business opportunities with a market value of 1.6 trillion dollars by 2020. Amidst growing fascination with the promise of digital technologies, do we really understand how to think strategically about cities? We talk to Dr Tooran Alizadeh, an interdisciplinary academic based at the School of Architecture, Design and Planning to find out more.

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