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How to prevent success from breeding failure
What if innovation leads to corporate disaster?
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The future of higher education with Mark Scott
This week: what is the future of universities? As the sector navigates disruption and uncertainty, special guest Professor Mark Scott joins us to discuss the future of higher education.
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Xiaohongshu (Little RED Book) and social commerce on The Future, This Week
This week: in a special on social commerce in China, we talk to our guest Kishi Pan about the unique experience of Xiaohongshu, or Little Red Book.
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What’s the secret of TikTok’s success?
The video-sharing platform may connect to our innate mental systems for physically copying one another.
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Seeing in colour with Alvy Ray Smith
What is the history of digital colour? How did Moore's Law shape computer animation? Mike Seymour talks with Pixar co-founder, Dr Alvy Ray Smith.
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Size matters and what the tech on The Future, This Week
This week: size matters when there’s scarce abundance, and what the tech?
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You say invention, I say innovation
When is an invention not innovative, how do innovation ‘hubs’ kill the very spark they seek to flame and why women may have the best innovative mindset.
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The long and winding road to overnight success on the Billboard Chart
How a black rap artist TikTok'd his way to the top of the country music pops...
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The Future, This Week 10 Aug 18: demographic time bombs, death, toddlers and aliens
This week: Populous time bombs, disrupting death, and toddlers and aliens.
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The answer to VUCA is SLAC: how businesses and individuals cope with disruptive environments
How then can we prepare for life and work in a VUCA world?
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The Future, This Week 11 August 2017
This week: two bots talk trash, modular design and drivers gaming Uber.
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The Future, This Week 28 July 2017
Season 2 is here: what happened while we were gone, real problems with AI, spying vacuums, and a suicidal robot.