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Weathering the perfect storm of container shipping on The Future, This Week
This week: COVID, climate and containers: how the world weathers the global logistics crisis.
Town closer to North Pole than equator hits 49.6ºC
What’s the verdict as unusual weather patterns become more common?
Cities are on the frontline of climate change – prepare or perish
More than 800 million people could be affected by coastal flooding, how are cities adapting?
Finfluencers and TikTok financial advice on The Future, This Week
This week: Finfluencers – more and more young people get their financial advice on TiktTok and other social media platforms.
The impending apocalypse happening in plain sight: a response to the latest IPCC report
Is the roadmap to net zero emissions afflicted by the politics of predatory delay?
Ray-Ban Stories let you wear Facebook on your face. But why would you want to?
Facebook is adamant its new “smart glasses” won’t be a privacy nightmare. But it is clearly bidding to normalise the use of wearable tech.
More than nudges are needed to save the world from climate change
What is needed to avert climate change? Professor Richard H. Thaler says nudges aren’t the only solution.
Why automation makes your job harder: unlearn automation
We discuss why it’s no longer true that automation and AI will make all our jobs easier.
#BreakUpBigChicken on The Future, This Week
This week: we’re back and what does #BreakUpBigTech have to do with your chicken?
Here’s what the High Court decision means for your favourite Facebook pages
Today’s ruling may inspire many social media account managers to more tightly restrict comments — or, where possible, switch them off completely.
What are the megatrends that shape our future?
The latest from the COVID-19 business impact dashboard
The Future of Power
Our series produced in collaboration with the Sydney Policy Lab.
The Future of Power is a new podcast series of discussions and interviews with thought leaders and acclaimed academics on how the nature of power is changing in the 21st century.
Jonathan Haidt on good intentions and bad ideas
Internationally acclaimed US academic and author Jonathan Haidt is warning of a rising generation of social-media addicted, pathologically anxious ‘Gen Z’ youths.
Joseph Stiglitz on the age of inequality
Joseph Stiglitz says our rising level of inequality is not the unfortunate by-product of economic development but is the result of deliberate policy choices. Who is making those choices?
James Crabtree on India’s billionaire raj
With the rise of a billionaire superclass from the austere remnants of India’s state socialism, how will India handle rising inequality?
Latest podcasts
Weathering the perfect storm of container shipping on The Future, This Week
This week: COVID, climate and containers: how the world weathers the global logistics crisis.
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Finfluencers and TikTok financial advice on The Future, This Week
Why automation makes your job harder: unlearn automation
#BreakUpBigChicken on The Future, This Week
Why the unlearn project, and computers
Coming soon… The Unlearn Project
Social capital on Corona Business Insights
Wellbeing on Corona Business Insights
Productivity on Corona Business Insights
Resources
We are curious about the future. We are committed to sharing our insights.
We have carefully curated lists of resources on the most interesting and important topics.
Contact tracing tech
Discover our new resource on contact tracing and how is technology being used to improve it
Post-pandemic powerhouse
China is moving on
In this special report, China’s path through COVID-19 and beyond into economic growth.
Meet just some of our innovative thinkers who collaborate with us to provide insights for our community.
