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Best business books of 2021 on The Future, This Week
This week: corporate self-help, schadenfreude, tech broccoli, and real eyeopeners: our 2021 best business books for your Christmas list.
Love it or hate it, TikTok is changing the music industry
Creator culture on TikTok is changing the way hits are made, how music is promoted, and how the world discovers music, even for those artists who choose not to engage with it.
Cobalt, not exactly the new oil on The Future, This Week
This week: all about cobalt, a behind the scenes look at the challenges of transitioning to renewable energy technologies.
Professor Daniel Kahneman is sometimes wrong. And that gives him joy.
Five learnings in one hour with Nobel Prize winner Professor Daniel Kahneman.
The North-South divide in smart city development
Smart cities continue to spread, but how is the North-South divide impacting development in the Global South?
The great resignation on The Future, This Week
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?
Declining fish poo changing ocean carbon balance
While commercial fishing rates have fallen, the decline in fish stocks over time is leading to unintended consequences.
Climate change – what’s in a number?
In the challenging environment of climate change information, the dilemma is which not-so-beautiful set of numbers to pay attention to.
The numbers of climate change and COP26 on The Future, This Week
This week: all the numbers of climate change and what they mean from the COP26 in Glasgow, with our expert Professor Christopher Wright.
Facebook relaunches itself as Meta in a clear bid to dominate the metaverse
Facebook’s parent company is now called Meta, as part of its move to embrace the metaverse.
The latest from the COVID-19 business impact dashboard
What are the megatrends that shape our future?
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
Best business books of 2021 on The Future, This Week
This week: corporate self-help, schadenfreude, tech broccoli, and real eyeopeners: our 2021 best business books for your Christmas list.
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Cobalt, not exactly the new oil on The Future, This Week
The great resignation on The Future, This Week
The numbers of climate change and COP26 on The Future, This Week
Meta and the metaverse on The Future, This Week
What Spotify is doing to podcasts on The Future, This Week
Why music is no longer just for listening: unlearn music
Squid Game and the future of content on The Future, This Week
Unlearn computers on The Future, This Week
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.
