The Future, This Week
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The Future, This Week 01 Apr 2017
30 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week's April Fool's special edition: how Elon Musk wants to save us from the AI apocalypse, the role of smart phones in planned parenthood, farme...
What if - Trump's energy policies in 2019
28 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Energy is critical to economic, social and environmental well-being. In this what if podcast set two years into the future in January 2019, we explore...
What is business for?
28 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Milton Friedman famously argued that ‘the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits’, pay taxes and let the government deal wit...
The Future, This Week 24 Mar 2017
24 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week: why the hard questions go unanswered, the road for self-driving cars seems rockier than we thought, and robolawyers. Sandra Peter (Sydney B...
The human side of energy security
19 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The energy industry is a critical industry because it underpins Australia's economic success and quality of life. However, it is also a complex indust...
The Future, This Week 17 Mar 2017
17 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week: why electric cars are nothing like fax machines, Elon Musk offers to solve South Australia’s power problems in 100 days, and a strange ex...
How global cities compete
14 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Today more than half the world’s population lives in cities, and this trend is expected to continue. As 1.5 million people move to cities every ...
The Future, This Week 10 Mar 2017
10 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week: is Silicon Valley sexism a feature or a bug, why your TV might be spying on you, and fake milk. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and...
Is business the answer to poverty alleviation?
07 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It is hard to think of the poorest people in the world as an opportunity to do business, and of lifting them out of poverty as anything other than the...
The Future, This Week 03 Mar 2017
06 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week: why the tax office is interested in social media, robots in education and why phones that are not so smart are suddenly appealing. Sandra P...
Urban impact entrepreneurship
03 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation is crucial to solving the toughest problems raised by rapid urbanisation, problems like public transportation, urban poverty, homelessness ...
The Future, This Week 24 Feb 2017
01 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In The Future, This Week Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Disruption Research Group) meet once a week to put their own ...
Machine learning - mapping the world's collective intelligence
01 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There are millions of news articles, blog posts, company profiles, and patents out there and we are increasingly facing an overload of information. Th...
Can innovation centres tame the wild
01 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Are today’s innovation centres, hubs, labs the answer to driving innovation in business today? Or much like animals in farms or zoos, an attempt ‘...
Welcome to Sydney Business Insights
01 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sydney Business Insights is a University of Sydney Business School initiative aiming to provide the business community and public, including our stude...