The Future, This Week

The Future, This Week 12 Oct 18: Nobel, Facebook, and cost per 'gram

12 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: Nobel interventions, now I see you, and cost per 'gram. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research...

The Future, This Week 5 Oct 18: self-automation, minimum wage, and lettuce

05 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: programming for obsolescence, raising minimums, and lettuce-loving robots. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital ...

The Future, This Week 28 Sep 18: space measurements, liveability, and privacy (not)

28 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: measure from space, liveable cities, and privacy is not the issue. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disrupti...

The Future, This Week 21 Sep 18: privacy, measurements, and ad poetry

21 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: selling privacy, for good measure, and automated advertising poetry. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disrup...

The Future, This Week 14 Sep 18: monopoly platforms, sci-fi, and fishy fashion

14 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: platform monopoly, tech between science and fiction, and skinning fish for fashion. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer ...

The Future, This Week 7 Sep 18: museums, words, and ancient blockchain

07 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: What's in a museum? Give us words, and ancient blockchain. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Resea...

Mind the fake news

06 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast, we talk with Professor Alan Dennis about the fake news phenomenon and how people are responding to our changing technological environ...

The Future, This Week 31 Aug 18: not-so-obvious, skimming, and excess stuff

31 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: That’s obvious, skimming is the new black, and mountains of stuff. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disrup...

The Future, This Week 24 Aug 18: hype cycles, leadership, and failure

24 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: It’s hype time, fast and agile leadership, and the business of failure. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital D...

The Future, This Week 17 Aug 18: productivity, food crisis, and changing stories

17 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: Googling productivity, placing weight on calories, and changing stories. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Di...

The Future, This Week 10 Aug 18: demographic time bombs, death, toddlers and aliens

10 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: Populous time bombs, disrupting death, and toddlers and aliens. Sandra Peter(Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption R...

The Future, This Week 3 Aug 18: meat-free, flat hierarchies and robituaries

03 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: When your boss has a beef with meat, flat hierarchy facade, and sad robituaries. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Di...

Coming soon: The Future, This Week Season 4

30 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Season 4 of The Future, This Week is coming this week! Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet...

Digital humans special on The Future, This Week

23 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: A Vivid Ideas special debate with Rachel Botsman and Mike Seymour: Can I marry my Avatar? Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai R...

Cathy O'Neil on The Future, This Week

15 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: a special edition with mathematician and data scientist Dr Cathy O’Neil. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital ...

The Future, This Week 06 Jul 2018

06 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

From Sydney Business Insights, this is our 100th episode! This week: AI matters, hail the rides, and flying snake bots. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business ...

Uber, money and monkeys with Keith Chen

05 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

As part of our In Conversation series and the University of Sydney’s Business School Global Executive MBA program, we talk to UCLA economist Keith C...

The Future, This Week 29 Jun 2018

02 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: Intrapreneurship, marshmallows and why it's hard to recall an idea. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disrupt...

The Future This Week 22 Jun 2018

22 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: entertaining mergers, long haul economics, and the next social network wants your DNA. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riem...

The Future, This Week 15 Jun 2018

15 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: winter is coming, Uber knows you're tipsy, and take the call. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Re...

The Future, This Week 08 Jun 2018

08 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: face recognition for a noble cause, the capability to find you in a crowd and DNA predictions. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and ...

The Future, This Week 01 Jun 2018

01 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: putting solar on the map, batteries have a dirty secret, and buses. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disrupt...

The Future, This Week 25 May 2018

25 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: why it's too early to certify AI, and phantom traffic jams and fungi sandals in other news. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai...

The Future, This Week 18 May 2018

18 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: owl thieves in cashless Sweden, DNA gone public, and this week in tech 20 years ago. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer...

The Future, This Week 11 May 2018

11 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: I'm um, a bot; sexist spaces; and Japan making stuff in other news. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disrupt...

Technology against poverty with 40K’s Clary Castrission

09 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

As part of our CEO Insights series, we talk to social enterprise entrepreneur Clary Castrission, the founder and CEO of 40K, about why he thinks busin...

The Future, This Week 04 May 2018

04 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: chickens of tomorrow, prison business, and the rise of the digital humans. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital ...

The Future, This Week 27 Apr 2018

27 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: what we learn from digital business, feeling lonely, and making rain the size of Spain in other news. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insight...

The Future, This Week 20 Apr 2018

20 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: talking to books, bots and pods; echo chambers; and fish tanks and Musk's couch in other news. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and ...

The Future, This Week 13 Apr 2018

13 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: big ships, rockets vs. cars, fake videos, Zuck's cushion, and climate change in other news. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai...

Women and the future of work

09 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

At the same time that revelations of sexual harassment of women at work and the rise of the “me too” movement were making headlines, a team of res...

The Future, This Week 06 Apr 2018

06 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: unpacking inequality, why shooting for the moon is hard, and cars demanding attention in other news. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights...

The Future, This Week 29 Mar 2018

29 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: a bumpy road ahead, missing out on AI glory, and long haul just got longer in other news. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai R...

The Future, This Week 23 Mar 2018

23 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: Cambridge Analytica is not the real story, backchannel gig chats, and a fading giant. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Rieme...

The Future, This Week 16 Mar 2018

16 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: fixing the web, the farmer wants a bot, and big gigs and solar in the rain in other news. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai R...

The Future, This Week 09 Mar 2018

11 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: facing the fake food future, big data big brother, and space junk and cloning voices in other news. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights)...

The Future, This Week 02 Mar 2018

02 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: lawyers v. AI, logos all the same and ring my bell. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Gro...

Daniel Flynn on social entrepreneurship

27 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Flynn is the co-founder and managing director of the social enterprise Thankyou. He is one of Australia's most successful entrepreneurs under t...

The Future, This Week 23 Feb 2018

23 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: where cars are going, banking on automation, and Apple glass, Facebook torture and robots in other news. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insi...

The Future, This Week 16 Feb 2018

16 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: classy Facebook, the end of the internet, and China, crypto and space stations in other news. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and K...

The Future, This Week 09 Feb 2018

09 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: what's up with universal basic income, fiduciary moats, and cars in space in other news. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Ri...

The future of banking

07 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The last decade has seen a significant shake up in the financial sector including the decline in cash transactions, the rise of cryptocurrencies, the ...

The Future, This Week 02 Feb 2018

02 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: break-in-news, I spy with my data eye, and fashion out of fashion.Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruptio...

Coming soon: The Future, This Week Season 3

29 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Season 3 of The Future, This Week is coming next week! Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet...

The Future, This Week 19 Jan 2018

18 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: Instagram is loving nature to death and a recap of last year’s Instagram stories. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer ...

The Future, This Week 12 Jan 2018

12 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week: how bots use us to make money online and a recap on algorithms. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption ...

The Future, This Week 22 Dec 2017

21 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Future, This Year: the most interesting, the weird and the wonderful, what's in store for 2018, and a Christmas story. Sandra Peter (Sydney Busine...

Does board diversity matter?

21 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Across the world still less than 15 percent of board seats are held by women. In Australia, pressure is now being applied by the ASX and by some inves...

The Future, This Week 15 Dec 2017

15 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: the battle of the giants, what's up with Bitcoin, and avocado innovation. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital D...

The Future, This Week 08 Dec 2017

11 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 (D...

The trust shift

08 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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...

The Future, This Week 01 Dec 2017

01 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: cities creating real kerb appeal, Meetup at work, and quantum bits. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disrupt...

The Future, This Week 24 Nov 2017

24 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: is the ivory tower asleep at the wheel, city experiments, and Uber...again. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital...

The Future, This Week 17 Nov 2017

17 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: re-cycling data, Watson’s health problems, and shop the look on Spotify. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital ...

The Future, This Week 10 Nov 2017

10 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: AI can't see my cat, predicting is creating, and it's a Musk. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Re...

CEO Insights: Andrew Baxter on marketing and robotics

06 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Machine learning and robots are moving from providing invisible customer services like stacking shelves into providing frontline customer services. We...

The Future, This Week 03 Nov 2017

03 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: electrify everything, crows nipping butts, and ethical German cars. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disrupt...

The Future, This Week 27 Oct 2017

27 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: scary tales about superhuman robots, a global waste blockage, and tricking cars. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Di...

The Future, This Week 20 Oct 2017

20 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: why exponential growth is big, remember eBay? and is Uber changing cities. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital ...

The Future, This Week 13 Oct 2017

13 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: nudge nudge Nobel Prize, the internet of creepy things, and Facebook enlists Wikipedia. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Rie...

The Future, This Week 06 Oct 2017

06 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: the algorithm is innocent, Australians in space, and the licence to watch. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital ...

The Future, This Week 29 Sep 2017

29 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: ATMs free at 50, animal tracking and big data, and science fiction. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disrupt...

The Future, This Week 22 Sep 2017

22 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: when intuition saves the world, the data science of winemaking, and robolawyers...again. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Ri...

The Future, This Week 15 Sep 2017

15 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

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 Disru...

The Future, This Week 08 Sep 2017

08 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: pay with a smile, fake reviews and regulating AI. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group...

The Future, This Week 01 Sep 2017

31 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: privacy (what privacy?), mind control games, and boring innovation. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disrupt...

The Future, This Week 25 Aug 2017

24 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: what's up with the hype, computer says no, and the power of playlists. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disr...

A future of automation

24 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What does automation, machine learning and AI mean for the future of mining, agriculture, cities, the future of jobs and the risks of a polarised soci...

The Future, This Week 18 Aug 2017

18 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: the myth of the lone genius, can life compete with Instagram, and is coal still cheaper? Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Ri...

The Future, This Week 11 Aug 2017

10 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: two bots talk trash, modular design and drivers gaming Uber. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Res...

The Future, This Week 04 Aug 2017

04 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: meet Mike, why electric cars are only getting greener and are digital natives real? Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer ...

Making social innovation happen

03 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Social innovation addresses massive social problems, including urban transport, indigenous disadvantage, poverty, climate change or the refugee crisis...

The Future, This Week 28 Jul 2017

28 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: what happened while we were gone, real problems with AI, spying vacuums, and a suicidal robot. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and ...

Coming soon: The Future, This Week Season 2

21 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Season 2 of The Future, This Week is coming next week! Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet...

Putting cities back into 'smart cities'

18 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Smart cities are anticipated to create huge business opportunities with a market value of 1.6 trillion dollars by 2020. Amidst growing fascination wit...

The Future, This Week 14 Jul 2017

13 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This Week: we have an unfolding story about augmented reality. Apple has recently thrown its hat into the augmented reality ring with its new ARKit. S...

The Future, This Week 07 Jul 2017

06 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: we revisit the business of sports on the back of some recent news about cricket. Part of this segment was featured earlier this month on Th...

Demystifying Chinese investment in Australia

03 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

There is constant debate about Chinese investment in Australia, whether it's real estate prices going up or farmland being acquired. There is speculat...

The Future, This Week 30 Jun 2017

30 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: why Google is building its own iPhone, why smartphone innovation is running out of steam, and the iPhone is different in India. Sandra Pete...

The Future, This Week 23 Jun 2017

26 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: rogue bikes, Amazon Wholefoods, and the exorcism of Uber. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Resear...

Innovation in the Navy: how the Air Arm does it

20 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Bringing innovation to a place where rules, hierarchy and tradition are deeply ingrained in the very fabric of the institution can be difficult. How d...

The Future, This Week 16 Jun 2017

16 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: inventors vs innovators, what drones are for, and the self-proclaimed Space Nation. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer ...

The Future, This Week 09 Jun 2017

09 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: should email die, stealing jeeps, talking pods, and our robot of the week. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital ...

Materialising the digital

05 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Out of Hand: Materialising the Digital at the Powerhouse Museum explores the increasingly important role of digital manufacture in contemporary art, s...

The Future, This Week 02 Jun 2017

02 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: big design, keeping up with blockchain, how computers change us and goodbye Walt. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (D...

Entrepreneurship and China's big three

01 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How can China's emerging entrepreneurs compete in a culture that is dominated by three big companies? Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, the B.A.T, the big t...

The Future, This Week 26 May 2017

25 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: medicine goes digital, AI for president and cameras killing keyboards. Sandra Peter(SBI)and Kai Riemer(DDRG)meet once a week to put their o...

The Future, This Week 19 May 2017

18 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: the Frightful Five, white men designing apps, and the ten thousand phones enslaved to like you. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and...

From imagination to innovation

16 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Star Trek inspired the first mobile phone by Motorola. Google, Apple and Microsoft have all used science fiction to stay ahead of the curve in the inn...

The Future, This Week 12 May 2017

11 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: robots, apples and Apple; when living the good life on Instagram turns into real work, and an industry where analogue still beats digital. ...

Are generational categories a myth?

08 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Generational categories are popular but is there any truth to generational differences? We talk to Dr Steven Hitchcock about the myths surrounding gen...

The Future, This Week 05 May 2017

05 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: do wearables deserve to die, why Netflix is resilient to hackers and pirates, and the challenge of building a great social network. Sandra ...

Coral or coal? Business divided

02 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Great Barrier Reef’s tourism industry is worth billions of dollars annually to Queensland and the Australian economy. But as economically impres...

The Future, This Week 28 Apr 2017

28 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This Week: what we can learn about innovation from copying in Silicon Valley, the NBN and an overpriced, wifi-connected juicer. Sandra Peter (Sydney B...

What if - an ice-free Arctic 2027

24 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Climate change changes everything - our economy, our society and the ecosystems that underpin life on Earth. In this what if episode we talk to Profes...

The Future, This Week 21 Apr 2017

21 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This Week: A special edition: Amazon is finally, officially coming to Australia. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disru...

The Future, This Week 13 Apr 2017

13 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This Week: why Google might soon use your beach selfies to sell sunglasses, cities are outbidding each other for the shiny new Hyperloop, and data sci...

Leading digital change in the workplace

11 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Being a digital leader requires more than just implementing technology into your workplace, it requires a fundamental shift in our thinking and practi...

The Future, This Week 07 Apr 2017

06 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week: can we fight climate change by moving to the city, does technology make us less productive and cyborgs. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insig...

The Stupidity Paradox

04 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Stupidity in business can lead to disasters. From absurd routines to idiotic management practices, from lost productivity and slow reaction times to f...