What are the megatrends that shape our future?
Insights
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.
Coming soon: The Future, This Week Season 9
Season 9 of The Future, This Week is almost here.
Facebook and the media code on The Future, This Week
This week: we’re back with a breaking news special as Facebook goes nuclear, banning all news from its Australian platform.
Resetting the leadership agenda post-COVID-19
A post-pandemic era will require us to embrace new definitions of leadership—and apply new approaches to teaching and learning.
Unicorns, Kool-Aid and broccoli, the best business book lists
Which books should you be reading? We deconstruct the most prominent best business book lists into plain-speaking categories.
Reimagining the future of work: what’s next?
Will productivity remain the undisputed focal point of organisations?
Is COVID-19 the catalyst for increasing impact investments?
Is the social conscience of Australian investors strong enough to increase their impact investments?
How a Chinese joke about singles triggered an e-commerce revolution
Is Double 11 a showcase of China’s private consumption power, or is it highlighting the shift from bricks-and-mortar to mobile commerce?
The best books of 2020 on The Future, This Week
This week: generalising from unicorns, schadenfreude, self-help manifestos or true eye-openers, we review for you 2020’s best business books.
Urban mobility on Corona Business Insights
It only takes sixty days to form a habit, so after nine months of people working from home, how is transport changing in our cities?
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

Coming soon: The Future, This Week Season 9
Season 9 of The Future, This Week is almost here.
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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
Lessons from COVID-19 on The Future, This Week
Business models and big tech on The Future, This Week
The Asian century with Kishore Mahbubani
Data, privacy and tracking on The Future, This Week
Taxes and taxation 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.