Sandra Peter and Kai Riemer
Should email die, stealing jeeps, talking pods, our robot of the week and more – 09 June 2017
News that made it into The Future, This Week
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Apple is countering Amazon and Google with a Siri-enabled speaker
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Google’s AI eye doctor gets ready to go to work in India
Watch a supercut of the biggest announcements from Apple WWDC 2017
Counterpoint: D.C.’s Carnegie library is a fine place for an Apple store
The consumerization of healthcare
How Lego clicked: the brand that reinvented itself
Qualcomm spells out the hurdles to ‘extended reality’ glasses
When will robots deserve human rights?
Jim Hackett’s toughest job yet: leading Ford into the driverless era
Your period-tracker app might be messing with your head
The biggest, strangest ‘batteries’
Has Google finally proven that online ads cause offline purchases?
And some stuff we’re really not sure about (covfefe?)
Two Google Homes argue with each other
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Dr Sandra Peter is the Director of Sydney Executive Plus and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Business School. Her research and practice focuses on engaging with the future in productive ways, and the impact of emerging technologies on business and society.
Kai Riemer is Professor of Information Technology and Organisation, and Director of Sydney Executive Plus at the University of Sydney Business School. Kai's research interest is in Disruptive Technologies, Enterprise Social Media, Virtual Work, Collaborative Technologies and the Philosophy of Technology.
