Automated vehicles may encourage a new breed of distracted driversHumans are poor at remaining vigilant over time. That's bad news for the safety of partially automated cars, which sometimes need the person behind the wheel to quickly take over control.
The Future, This Week 5 Oct 18: self-automation, minimum wage, and lettuceThis week: programming for obsolescence, raising minimums, and lettuce-loving robots.
For the sake of our retirement savings, it’s time to reform the investment management boys’ clubWomen in investment management face sexist treatment and no accommodation of parenting responsibilities. That's bad news for a sector critical to all Australians’ economic security.
Mind the fake newsIn this podcast, we talk with Professor Alan Dennis about the fake news phenomenon.
The Future, This Week 28 Sep 18: space measurements, liveability, and privacy (not)This week: measure from space, liveable cities, and privacy is not the issue.
The Future, This Week 21 Sep 18: privacy, measurements, and ad poetryThis week: selling privacy, for good measure, and automated advertising poetry.
The ‘sleeping beauties’ of scienceScientific ideas can get lost in forests of words that lack structure and overuse complex language. Just like Sleeping Beauty, they need rescuing.