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The Future, This Week 01 December 2017
This week: cities creating real kerb appeal, Meetup at work, and quantum bits.
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The Future, This Week 24 November 2017
This week: is the ivory tower asleep at the wheel, city experiments, and Uber...again.
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The Future, This Week 20 October 2017
This week: why exponential growth is big, remember eBay? and is Uber changing cities.
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People take to their bikes when we make it safer and easier for them
The evidence suggests a small investment in cycling infrastructure, combined with less punitive policing, would enable more Australians to escape daily traffic congestion.
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A future of automation with Hugh Durrant-Whyte
What does automation mean for the future of mining, agriculture, cities and the future of jobs? A discussion with Hugh Durrant-Whyte, Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK Ministry of Defence.
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Putting cities back into ‘smart cities’
Amidst growing fascination with the promise of digital technologies, do we really understand how to think strategically about cities?
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The Future, This Week 13 April 2017
This week: why Google might soon use your beach selfies to sell sunglasses, cities are outbidding each other for the shiny new Hyperloop, and data science in the German Bundesliga.
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Our big cities are engines of inequality, so how do we fix that?
Australia’s global cities are a very large part of the nation’s economic success, but they are also generating significantly unequal incomes.
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Destination city
With the population of Australia’s capital cities growing rapidly, we ask how public transport will keep pace and whether we can maintain our prized ‘liveability’.