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Insights
Unpacking the gig economy impact on The Future, This Week
This week: as the world sets out to regulate gig work, we look at its surprising consequences and wider impact.
Coming soon: The Future, This Week Season 9… part 2
Part 2 of Season 9 of The Future, This Week is almost here.
A better deal for Uber drivers in UK, but Australia’s gig workers must wait
Uber has been forced by the UK courts to treat its British drivers as workers. It will probably require legislative change for Uber’s Australian drivers to be treated as employees.
The importance of relationships on The Future, This Week
This week: a special episode with Marc Stears on the importance of relationships.
Are you leaving money on the table?
COVID-19 is increasing the divide between companies that understand intangible assets and companies that don’t.
The creator economy and mixed realities on The Future, This Week
This week: What Roblox teaches us about the creator economy and we’re talking about AR and VR yet again.
Action? Cinemas are reopening, but will audiences return?
Without new films, audiences and revenue, will there be any cinemas remaining to show films by 2022?
It’s time for a gender-focused recovery
Is a gender-lens on public policy needed to ensure an equitable future of work?
NFTs and Gamestop on The Future, This Week
This week: we discuss how digital ownership through NFTs creates value and new kinds of assets, and what the GameStop saga reveals about new forms of spontaneous digital organising.
5 ways to help prevent AI from deepening social inequality
If the historical data used to train an AI system disadvantages certain minority groups, the system can be swayed to follow these patterns in its own decision-making process.
The latest from the COVID-19 business impact dashboard
Post-pandemic powerhouse
China is moving on
In this special report, China’s path through COVID-19 and beyond into economic growth.
Latest podcasts
Unpacking the gig economy impact on The Future, This Week
This week: as the world sets out to regulate gig work, we look at its surprising consequences and wider impact.
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Coming soon: The Future, This Week Season 9… part 2
The importance of relationships on The Future, This Week
The creator economy and mixed realities on The Future, This Week
NFTs and Gamestop on The Future, This Week
Coming soon: The Future, This Week Season 9
Facebook and the media code on The Future, This Week
The best books of 2020 on The Future, This Week
Urban mobility 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
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.
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?
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?
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.
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