This week: it really is a Musk when Elon becomes Twitter’s largest shareholder and gets a seat on the board. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/elon-musk-buys-twitter-well-sort-of/ Subscribe to our new podcast, The Unlearn Pr...
Apr 08, 2022•24 min•Season 11Ep. 6
This week: the world’s leading suppliers of neon are in Ukraine, and that threatens to make the ongoing microchip shortage even worse. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/neon-and-chip-shortages/ Subscribe to our new podcast, ...
Mar 28, 2022•24 min•Season 11Ep. 5
This week: we discuss the economics and business behind the New York Times’ decision to buy popular internet game Wordle. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/new-york-times-gets-wordle/ Subscribe to our new podcast, The Unlear...
Mar 18, 2022•29 min•Season 11Ep. 4
This week: fake fact-checking videos take disinformation to a different level. For MisinfoDay we talk to expert Jevin West from the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public . Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au...
Mar 11, 2022•25 min•Season 11Ep. 3
On this IWD why cybersecurity needs more women and what we can do about it with expert Dr Meraiah Foley. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/cybersecurity-and-women/ Subscribe to our new podcast, The Unlearn Project . You can ...
Mar 04, 2022•30 min•Season 11Ep. 2
This week: the future of wine is bleak because of millennials, climate, tariffs and taxes; and more remote work and fake companies. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/the-future-of-wine-and-some-remote-work-stuff/ Subscribe t...
Feb 24, 2022•24 min•Season 11Ep. 1
This week: what is the future of universities? As the sector navigates disruption and uncertainty, special guest Professor Mark Scott AO, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Sydney joins us to discuss the future of higher education. You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/the-future-of-higher-education-on-the-future-this-week/ Subscribe to our new podcast, The Unlearn Project . You can follow us to keep updated wi...
Feb 09, 2022•40 min
This week: we’re on a break but we have something interesting in store for you, and it’s not about our longitudinal auto ethnographic research on leisure time, but rather how automation will make your job harder. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: htt...
Jan 31, 2022•54 min
This week: how should we spend our time off? How making leisure time productive is making us efficient but also unhappy and what we can do about it. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/making-leisure-work-on-the-future-this-we...
Dec 14, 2021•23 min•Season 10Ep. 12
This week: corporate self-help, schadenfreude, tech broccoli, and real eyeopeners: our 2021 best business books for your Christmas list. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/best-business-books-of-2021-on-the-future-this-week/ ...
Dec 06, 2021•30 min•Season 10Ep. 11
This week: all about cobalt, a behind the scenes look at the challenges of transitioning to renewable energy technologies. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/cobalt-not-exactly-the-new-oil-on-the-future-this-week/ Subscribe t...
Nov 26, 2021•30 min•Season 10Ep. 10
This week: with so much talk of the great resignation, the great realignment, job swap and early retirement, what is actually going on and what do we need to know about it? Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/the-great-resigna...
Nov 19, 2021•31 min•Season 10Ep. 9
This week: all the numbers of climate change and what they mean from the COP26 in Glasgow, with our expert Professor Christopher Wright. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/the-numbers-of-climate-change-and-cop26-on-the-future...
Nov 12, 2021•38 min•Season 10Ep. 8
This week: rebranding the company and the metaverse play: we discuss the Facebook announcements, meta and verse. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/meta-and-the-metaverse-on-the-future-this-week/ Subscribe to our new podcast,...
Oct 29, 2021•34 min•Season 10Ep. 7
This week: the podcast about podcasts, how Spotify’s ambitions might change podcasts forever, plus LinkedIn getting out of China and Norway’s EVs in other news. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/what-spotify-is-doing-to-podc...
Oct 22, 2021•26 min•Season 10Ep. 6
This week: Squid Game, the biggest hit in Netflix history is re-shaping the future of movies and television. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/squid-game-and-the-future-of-content-on-the-future-this-week/ Subscribe to our ne...
Oct 15, 2021•26 min•Season 10Ep. 5
This week: we’re on a break but we have something interesting in store for you, and it’s not just Mr Goxx the cryptocurrency trading hamster. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/unlearn-computers-on-the-future-this-week/ Subsc...
Oct 04, 2021•46 min•Season 10Ep. 4
This week: COVID, climate and containers: how the world weathers the global logistics crisis and a quick look at the Facebook files, ByteDance, finfluencers, Shell gets out of shale and AR spiders. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney...
Sep 24, 2021•30 min•Season 10Ep. 3
This week: Finfluencers - more and more young people get their financial advice on TikTok and other social media platforms. Also, robot vacuums and pet poop AI and the epic #Epic #Apple battle comes to a temporary end. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our websit...
Sep 17, 2021•23 min•Season 10Ep. 2
This week: we’re back and what does #BreakUpBigTech have to do with your chicken? There's also Abba-tars, Gartner all hype no cycle, Musk’s humanoid robots and laser weed zapping ones, COVID AI disappointment, the IPCC report and everything else we’ve missed. Sandra Peter (Sydney Business Insights) and Kai Riemer (Digital Futures 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 find transcripts, links for t...
Sep 10, 2021•32 min•Season 10Ep. 1
Season 10 of The Future, This Week is almost here. But in the meantime, we've been working on something new… Introducing The Unlearn Project, our new podcast about changing common sense. The way the world works has changed. Things you thought you knew like automation will make our work easier, music is something to listen to, large companies can’t innovate, or data is the new oil are no longer true. Hosts Sandra Peter and Kai Riemer set out to unlearn old wisdoms and discover new ones. From Sydn...
Aug 23, 2021•4 min
Social capital, networking and the office: part four of a series looking at shifting working practices, distributed and hybrid work. As COVID-19 sets out to change the world forever, join us to think about what's to come in the future of business. For shownotes and links: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/social-capital-on-corona-business-insights/ Discover our COVID Business Impact Dashboard You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard , LinkedIn , Twitter and WeChat . Send u...
Aug 19, 2021•18 min
Wellbeing, burnout and memory fog: part three of a series looking at shifting working practices, distributed and hybrid work. As COVID-19 sets out to change the world forever, join us to think about what's to come in the future of business. For shownotes and links: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/wellbeing-on-corona-business-insights/ Discover our COVID Business Impact Dashboard You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard , LinkedIn , Twitter and WeChat . Send us your news ...
Aug 14, 2021•16 min
Revisiting productivity and remote work: part two of a series looking at shifting working practices, distributed and hybrid work. As COVID-19 sets out to change the world forever, join us to think about what's to come in the future of business. For shownotes and links: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/productivity-on-corona-business-insights/ Discover our COVID Business Impact Dashboard You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard , LinkedIn , Twitter and WeChat . Send us you...
Aug 04, 2021•15 min
Revisiting working from home (WFH): part one of a series looking at shifting working practices, distributed and hybrid work. As COVID-19 sets out to change the world forever, join us to think about what's to come in the future of business. For shownotes and links: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/working-from-home-on-corona-business-insights/ Discover our COVID Business Impact Dashboard You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard , LinkedIn , Twitter and WeChat . Send us you...
Jul 29, 2021•18 min
As remote work continues for many people, what is Zoom fatigue and what to do about it, and how are videoconferencing platforms adapting their services to the hybrid future? As COVID-19 sets out to change the world forever, join us to think about what's to come in the future of business. For shownotes and links: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/still-zooming-on-corona-business-insights Discover our COVID Business Impact Dashboard You can follow us to keep updated with our latest insights on Flipboard ,...
Jul 14, 2021•13 min
We look at lessons learned from the use of digital contact tracing apps, launched with great promise early in the pandemic, but now largely regarded as ineffective by many countries. As COVID-19 sets out to change the world forever, join us to think about what's to come in the future of business. For shownotes and links: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/contact-tracing-revisited-on-corona-business-insights/ Discover our COVID Business Impact Dashboard You can follow us to keep updated with our latest i...
Jul 05, 2021•16 min
This week: What if the science behind your favourite TED Talk was wrong? 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: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/ted-talks-and-science-on-the-future-this-week/ You can follow us ...
Jun 30, 2021•27 min•Season 9Ep. 14
This week: how COVID-19 reveals how the fashion industry predicts trends, and why the success of solar becomes a problem. 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: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/predicting-fashi...
Jun 22, 2021•30 min•Season 9Ep. 13
This week: what we saw when the internet went down and changing minds about the scientific paradox. 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: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/breaking-the-internet-and-the-scientif...
Jun 11, 2021•30 min•Season 9Ep. 12
