Think: Digital Futures

Our jobs are changing, and so are our cities. We have data coming out of our ears to make cities efficient and more sustainable. But are we at risk of losing the humanness in the urban jungle?

SPEAKERS:

Sarah Barnes- Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University and Co-Director, Esem Projects

Jess Scully - Councilor, City of Sydney

Professor Ed Blakely - City Leaders Institute

Adam Beck - Executive Director Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand

Stuart White - Director of Institute of Sustainable Futures University of Technology Sydney

Marcus Foth - Director of QUT Design Lab at the Queensland University of Technology

PRODUCERS: Ellen Leabeater, Jake Morcom

Robots and artificial intelligence are moving from the factory floor into the car, the home and our workplace. If we are interacting with this technology more, how do we regulate it? Who is to blame when something goes wrong?

Presenters/Producers: Cheyne Anderson & Ellen Leabeater

Speakers:

Gary Lea - Researcher, Australian National University

Teresa Vidal Calleja - Researcher, Centre for Autonomous Systems, University of Technology Sydney

Mady Delvaux - Member of the EU Parliament from Luxembourg and Vice Chair on the Committee for Legal Affairs

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This podcast is supported by 2SER and the University of Technology Sydney.

There's no doubt that artificial intelligence is going to be smarter than humans - they're already driving cars and sorting files for us. So if no job is safe from AI, how do we make money? Will capitalism as we know it still exist?

Presented and Produced by Cheyne Anderson and Ellen Leabeater.

Speakers:

Paul Mason - Journalist & Author of Post-Capitalism: A Guide to Our Future

Gigi Foster - Economist, University of New South Wales

Dr Elizabeth Humphrys - Researcher, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney

Think: Digital Futures is a collaboration between 2ser and the University of Technology Sydney.

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How easy is it to hack into an insulin pump or pacemaker? Should we be worried?

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Presenter/Producer:

Ellen Leabeater

Guests:

Jay Radcliffe - Type 1 diabetic, researcher for Rapid7

Michael Blumenstein - Professor, School of Software, Faculty of Engineering and IT at University of Technology Sydney

Dr Bradley Wilsmore - Cardiologist

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In a collaboration with Think: Health, this week we're taking a look at a few examples of non-invasive medical tech - tracking blood sugar without blood, exoskeletons for rehab, and using vibrations to help the blind see.

Earlier this year Google managed to do something many thought impossible - they built an artificial intelligence that beat a human at the board game GO. Almost twenty years ago IBM did something similar, beating the world chess champion with their computer, Deep Blue. Understanding how these computers play games, as well as the myriad computer games we all know and love, reveals a lot about the evolution of artificial intelligence.

Meet Stalker theatre, a Sydney-based theatre group that is experimenting with code and live performance.

Nomatter how exciting it may be, when new technology is developed, it's often really hard to use. The first few years of mainframes, smartphones and artificial intelligence all started this way.

But gradually, the rest of us want in. And designers start trying to figure out how to make it accessible for almost anyone. This is how users get into design.

This year saw a record number of vinyl records sold. It's a 28 year high, but the trend has been going this way for a while. But with so many digital options, why are people choosing to go analogue?

This week and next are supporter drive here at 2ser, and Jake and Josh are busy cooking up some live shows to help us raise money and keep the station on air. So here's one of our favourite shows from this year -- a look inside a women's only hackathon at Fishburners