The future of work not as usual on The Future, This Week
This week: working less for more, and the future of work not as usual.
Calling bullshit and algorithms on The Future, This Week
This week: calling bullshit, sexist credit cards and death predictions with Jevin West.
Thinking with Daniel Kahneman
How can we make better decisions? Professor Daniel Kahneman discusses bias, noise and algorithms.
The state of digital on The Future, This Week
This week: part one of a special with Simon Kemp on the state of digital.
YouTube fame and ghost kitchens on The Future, This Week
This week: welcome to Season 6, with hidden YouTube fame and ghost kitchens.
The words that ate 2018
Each year the Macquarie Dictionary Committee choose a new word that represents the year gone by. Drawn from a short list, the words selected are both innovative and highly topical: so it’s no coincidence we have delved into some of the issues underlying these evolving words.
The Future, This Week 14 Dec 18: fake restaurants, fake news, and monsters
This week from San Francisco: a fake special with restaurants, reviews and monsters.
Our must-listen podcasts from 2018
To celebrate the milestone of producing our 100th podcast and the closing of a successful year, here is a collection of our favourite podcast interviews from 2018.
Automated vehicles may encourage a new breed of distracted drivers
Humans 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.
Mind the fake news
In this podcast, we talk with Professor Alan Dennis about the fake news phenomenon.
‘Google it’ at your productive peril
Are we heading into a future where workers will have their daily work practices dictated by an algorithm?
Cathy O’Neil and weapons of math destruction
This week: a special edition with mathematician and data scientist Dr Cathy O’Neil.