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The Future, This Week 01 June 2018
This week: putting solar on the map, batteries have a dirty secret, and buses.
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The extraordinary power of China’s corporate ‘mega ecosystems’
Companies like Didi and Meituan are increasingly coming into competition.
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The Future, This Week 27 April 2018
This week: what we learn from digital business, feeling lonely, and making rain the size of Spain in other news.
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China’s “Internet of Bikes”
The golden era of automobility innovation: the “Internet of Bikes” sensation in China.
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The Future, This Week 29 March 2018
This week: a bumpy road ahead, missing out on AI glory, and long haul just got longer in other news.
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The Future, This Week 09 March 2018
This week: facing the fake food future, big data big brother, and space junk and cloning voices in other news.
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The Future, This Week 02 February 2018
This week: break-in-news, I spy with my data eye, and fashion out of fashion.
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The trust shift
Rachel Botsman talks about changing perceptions of trust and explains how traditional ideas of banking, media, politics and consumerism are being radically transformed in our society.
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The Future, This Week 22 December 2017
The Future, This Year: the most interesting, the weird and the wonderful, what's in store for 2018, and a Christmas story.
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The Future, This Week 15 December 2017
This week: the battle of the giants, what's up with Bitcoin, and avocado innovation.
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Building the Digital Silk Road
China’s 'One Belt, One Road' program now has a digital map.
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The Future, This Week 08 December 2017
This week: building the digital Silk Road, brands in the age of Amazon, and my robot friend.