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Business Unusual

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The best disruptors are focused on customers, not products, they use technology rather than fear it, they create new opportunities often where regulations don't exist and they are backed by those with deep pockets and an appetite for risk. Colin Cullis presents stories of Business Unusual - those people and companies driving the next industrial revolution. The associated articles and videos are available here

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A big trend in City developments - micro apartments

Published: March 17, 2021, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 31 seconds

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Rupert Murdoch and how he built a multinational media empire

Published: March 10, 2021, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 54 seconds

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Roll up, roll up get your non fungible tokens here

Published: March 3, 2021, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 32 seconds

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Facebook and Australia, what it means for the rest of us

Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 5:26 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 19 seconds

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The best way to predict the future is to understand the past

Published: Feb. 17, 2021, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 15 seconds

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The story of the web can be told by the highs and lows of Reddit

Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 1 second

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Sustainable finance - what it is and what it means for the planet and your investments

Published: Feb. 3, 2021, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 47 seconds

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Would you invest in a blank cheque company?

Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 35 seconds

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The money to be made from being mindful

Published: Jan. 20, 2021, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 7 seconds

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A Social Reckoning

Published: Jan. 13, 2021, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 55 seconds

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Business Unusual

Published: Dec. 16, 2020, 5:22 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 57 seconds

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What 2021 may hold, a look at the trends that will same the new normal

Published: Dec. 9, 2020, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 28 seconds

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The Businesses that boomed in 2020

Published: Dec. 2, 2020, 5:26 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 34 seconds

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The cows are coming to save us

Published: Nov. 25, 2020, 5:35 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 23 seconds

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Got milk? Non dairy milk?

Published: Nov. 18, 2020, 5:26 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 24 seconds

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Business Unusual - "Smart Devices"

Published: Nov. 11, 2020, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 52 seconds

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Ant Group, the largest bank that is not a bank

Published: Nov. 4, 2020, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 38 seconds

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The two men that have correctly predicted most US elections

Published: Oct. 28, 2020, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 19 seconds

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Regenerative agriculture - an idea 12 000 years in the making

Published: Oct. 21, 2020, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 2 seconds

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South Africa needs batteries, here are some we might use

Published: Oct. 14, 2020, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 7 seconds

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A business bedtime story about Robinhood

Published: Oct. 7, 2020, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 54 seconds

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An inconvenient truth - plastic recycling does not work

Published: Sept. 30, 2020, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 40 seconds

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Business Unusual- Smart Homes

Published: Sept. 9, 2020, 5:28 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 43 seconds

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How the Dow Jones Industrial Average tracks the state of the US stock market

Published: Sept. 2, 2020, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 45 seconds

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Mining of the future could help spare the planet or ruin it

Published: Aug. 26, 2020, 5:29 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 1 second

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Epic battle royal between Apple, Google and Fortnite

Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 5:27 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 42 seconds

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It has not been a good year for rubber

Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 5:27 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 46 seconds

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A warning for the future, we do not think enough about our actions

Published: Aug. 5, 2020, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 55 seconds

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How social media became a dumpster fire and what to do about it

Published: July 29, 2020, 5:26 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 50 seconds

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What the Twitter hack says about us

Published: July 22, 2020, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 4 seconds

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When business, technology and politics collide

Published: July 8, 2020, 5:28 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 4 seconds

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Drug profits - a neccessary evil or something that needs to change

Published: July 1, 2020, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 12 seconds

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Social Media - mass mobilisation and the modern mob

Published: June 24, 2020, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 55 seconds

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How the dead can solve South Africa's inequality

Published: June 17, 2020, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 8 seconds

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Something found in a dump may save the oceans

Published: June 10, 2020, 5:26 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 32 seconds

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Banking the unbanked

Published: June 3, 2020, 5:26 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 43 seconds

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The Artemis program to put a woman on the Moon

Published: May 27, 2020, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds

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Business Unusual- What is Artificial intelligence really, where does it come from and what is the future?

Published: May 20, 2020, 5:32 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 49 seconds

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How to know which numbers to track for Covid-19

Published: May 13, 2020, 5:28 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 42 seconds

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How disruptors deal with disruption

Published: May 6, 2020, 5:36 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 11 seconds

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Your face may be your most significant privacy concern

Published: April 22, 2020, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 55 seconds

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Privacy and contact tracing... it's complicated!

Published: April 15, 2020, 5:31 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds

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Business Unusual - How will we live in a world with little privacy?

Published: April 15, 2020, 5:26 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds

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How to support outdoor entertainment indoors

Published: April 8, 2020, 5:28 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 32 seconds

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A tipping point for video conferencing

Published: April 1, 2020, 5:29 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 8 seconds

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Innovation in a time of crisis

Published: March 25, 2020, 6:22 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 1 second

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Writing the operating manual for humans

Published: March 18, 2020, 5:32 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 2 seconds

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Using cat videos to get you to Mars

Published: March 11, 2020, 5:36 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 23 seconds

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What your business can do to deal with a potentially unusual flu season

Published: March 4, 2020, 5:34 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 22 seconds

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$7 trillion could save the world but not in the way you might think

Published: Feb. 26, 2020, 5:26 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 38 seconds

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Finding your way after 15 years with Google Maps

Published: Feb. 19, 2020, 5:26 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 15 seconds

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A record breaking shoe may also break the sport

Published: Feb. 12, 2020, 5:27 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 9 seconds

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Biological robots, that is a thing now

Published: Feb. 5, 2020, 5:28 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 33 seconds

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Who is Klaus Schwab and could he help save the World

Published: Jan. 29, 2020, 5:32 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 56 seconds

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Business Unusual - Matric Results - Let's look at the myriad of courses you can take online

Published: Jan. 8, 2020, 5:21 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 34 seconds

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How to find the size that fits you

Published: Dec. 18, 2019, 5:37 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds

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Mechanical batteries could save Eskom

Published: Dec. 11, 2019, 5:26 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 15 seconds

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Pandemic - of all potential threats, the smallest may prove the most lethal

Published: Dec. 4, 2019, 5:27 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 4 seconds

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Freedom of Speech is not the same as Freedom of Reach

Published: Nov. 27, 2019, 5:29 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes

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Kylie Jenner - the 22-year-old billionaire

Published: Nov. 20, 2019, 5:28 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 38 seconds

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TikTok - the best free interactive social video creator

Published: Nov. 13, 2019, 5:27 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 3 seconds

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The World in 2056 based on Blade Runner

Published: Nov. 6, 2019, 5:31 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 11 seconds

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Fundraising in the 21st Century

Published: Oct. 30, 2019, 5:31 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 19 seconds

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A Business Unusual recap for 2019

Published: Oct. 23, 2019, 5:33 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 37 seconds

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A potential solution to poverty

Published: Oct. 16, 2019, 5:27 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 4 seconds

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The one time searching the internet for your medical diagnosis is a good idea

Published: Oct. 9, 2019, 5:28 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 1 second

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Business Unusual - Searching the internet for a medical diagnosis is a terrible idea-or is it?

Published: Oct. 9, 2019, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 52 seconds

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The Greta Thunberg effect

Published: Oct. 2, 2019, 5:27 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes

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Business Unusual - The changing ways we follow sport

Published: Sept. 18, 2019, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 21 seconds

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WeWork hopes to fix old office problems with big data, disruption and community

Published: Sept. 11, 2019, 5:21 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 5 seconds

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The Silicon Age - How one element has powered most of human innovation

Published: Aug. 28, 2019, 5:19 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 31 seconds

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Who gets the biggest cut of the billion dollar hair loss industry?

Published: Aug. 21, 2019, 5:21 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 47 seconds

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Doomsday weapons

Published: Aug. 14, 2019, 10:02 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 16 seconds

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It's called the web. Is it any surprise we got caught in it?

Published: July 31, 2019, 5:36 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 25 seconds

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Humanity 2.0: Tech is driving our evolution

Published: July 24, 2019, 5:21 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 48 seconds

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Space weather: sunny with a chance of destruction

Published: June 26, 2019, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 31 seconds

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Peak disruption - is the internet revolution almost over?

Published: June 19, 2019, 6:16 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 28 seconds

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The world may soon have only one time zone (and a new calender)

Published: June 12, 2019, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 39 seconds

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How to use machine learning

Published: June 5, 2019, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 47 seconds

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Netflix is fighting a streaming war and we may get burned

Published: May 22, 2019, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 5 seconds

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Making climate change easier to swallow

Published: May 15, 2019, 5:21 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 37 seconds

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Business Unusual - Elections of the future

Published: May 8, 2019, 5:35 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 4 seconds

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Happy Birthday YouTube, now grow up

Published: April 24, 2019, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 10 seconds

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President Cyril Ramaphosa wants to make coding compulsory in public schools

Published: April 17, 2019, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 48 seconds

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A timeline of revolutions past and present

Published: April 10, 2019, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 25 seconds

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How Netflix became the 7th largest company in the world

Published: April 3, 2019, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 42 seconds

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SA may help the world move beyond being CO2 neutral to becoming CO2 negative

Published: March 27, 2019, 5:26 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 17 seconds

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'Drop shipping' - the shady side of connecting buyers with sellers on the web

Published: March 20, 2019, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 15 seconds

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Facebook is planning some big changes

Published: March 13, 2019, 6:06 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 34 seconds

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Patronage can be good, just not the kind you assume

Published: March 6, 2019, 5:22 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 5 seconds

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What would happen if Government just gave everyone free money?

Published: Feb. 27, 2019, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 30 seconds

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Why you should read the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation annual letter

Published: Feb. 20, 2019, 5:31 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 33 seconds

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Robocalls: the good, the bad and the ugly

Published: Feb. 13, 2019, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 1 second

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Technology is neither good nor evil. How we use it makes it one or the other

Published: Feb. 6, 2019, 5:28 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 31 seconds

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How mushrooms and milk might solve a plastic packaging problem

Published: Jan. 30, 2019, 5:26 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 11 seconds

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Does the world need a social credit score to get us to behave?

Published: Jan. 23, 2019, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 18 seconds

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The impact of a fire in the US might spare South Africa from getting burned

Published: Jan. 16, 2019, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 49 seconds

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Back to the future! Here's what's in store for 2019...

Published: Jan. 9, 2019, 5:31 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 50 seconds

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The best things to listen to this holiday

Published: Dec. 12, 2018, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 36 seconds

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Signing is becoming obsolete, but you will still have a signature

Published: Dec. 5, 2018, 5:21 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 53 seconds

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Ryan is seven and reviews toys. For that he earned over R100 million last year

Published: Nov. 28, 2018, 5:22 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 29 seconds

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Despite what you may think, you have no idea what a kilogram is

Published: Nov. 21, 2018, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 6 seconds

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Electric scooters - transport revolution or fad? It's probably both

Published: Nov. 14, 2018, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 58 seconds

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Fortnite - two weeks will never be the same again

Published: Nov. 7, 2018, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 8 seconds

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How three letters could save the planet from climate change

Published: Oct. 31, 2018, 5:25 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 6 seconds

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Super economies may sound great, but they also create super losers

Published: Oct. 24, 2018, 5:52 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 17 seconds

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How flavour created the modern economy

Published: Oct. 17, 2018, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 11 seconds

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The businesses that boomed and went bust on Business Unusual

Published: Sept. 19, 2018, 5:47 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 52 seconds

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TED, three letters with a plan to change the world

Published: Sept. 12, 2018, 5:21 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 28 seconds

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TVs are becoming so good, our eyes may not be able to perceive the improvements

Published: Sept. 5, 2018, 5:22 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 51 seconds

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Surviving disruption - two global brands that dodged the bullet

Published: Aug. 29, 2018, 5:22 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 37 seconds

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Three moonshots that could change the world

Published: Aug. 22, 2018, 5:40 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes

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To buy or not to buy? That is the question

Published: Aug. 15, 2018, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 33 seconds

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It took a war to change shipping. What will it take to change transport?

Published: Aug. 8, 2018, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 27 seconds

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Scale may no longer be the best way to achieve growth

Published: Aug. 1, 2018, 5:22 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 28 seconds

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Will 5G communications make access universal or create another digital divide?

Published: July 25, 2018, 5:33 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 59 seconds

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How to win elections and influence people

Published: July 18, 2018, 5:39 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 12 seconds

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Technology disrupted tax income, but nobody escapes taxes

Published: July 11, 2018, 5:22 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 35 seconds

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Solving puzzles and mysteries, and what all of us may be missing about it

Published: July 4, 2018, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 31 seconds

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Boredom, loneliness and addiction

Published: June 27, 2018, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 5 seconds

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The world is reliant on fertilizer and this is who controls most of it

Published: June 20, 2018, 5:20 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 48 seconds

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How Instagram captured the moment

Published: June 13, 2018, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 13 seconds

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Serving coffee beans to human beings

Published: June 6, 2018, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 59 seconds

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Why breaking up is hard to do

Published: May 30, 2018, 5:21 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 40 seconds

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Biohacking - an industry for creating a new, DIY you

Published: May 23, 2018, 5:18 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 58 seconds

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How to make over R150 billion in just 10 years

Published: May 16, 2018, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 38 seconds

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Could the future of Tesla be a repeat of General Motors' past?

Published: May 9, 2018, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 56 seconds

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Your phone is now a travel agent. How the technology is changing air travel

Published: May 2, 2018, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 30 seconds

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The 5th Industrial Revolution sounds as scary as hell

Published: March 28, 2018, 5:21 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 57 seconds

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Let me tell you a story, its about how you are being manipulated - all the time

Published: March 21, 2018, 5:29 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 1 second

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The real world is about to change, again

Published: March 14, 2018, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 18 seconds

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Antibiotics: how our miracle medicine may be in danger

Published: March 7, 2018, 5:30 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 28 seconds

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We hope tech will fix most things, so what happens when we can't fix technology?

Published: Feb. 28, 2018, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 40 seconds

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Why we celebrate a saints day with commercial things to show love

Published: Feb. 14, 2018, 5:24 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds

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Dead investors are some of the most successful (and other top tips on investing)

Published: Feb. 7, 2018, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds

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The surprising history of some well known products

Published: Jan. 31, 2018, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 51 seconds

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Will the device that helped turn you into a couch potato also help get you fit?

Published: Jan. 24, 2018, 5:21 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 50 seconds

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Facebook has a problem and it is us

Published: Jan. 17, 2018, 5:23 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 7 seconds

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A big battery may work better than a power plant

Published: Jan. 10, 2018, 5:21 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 45 seconds

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2017 was the year social media got captured

Published: Dec. 20, 2017, 5:51 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 3 seconds

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How a South African put Amazon in the cloud

Published: Dec. 14, 2017, 3:26 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 40 seconds

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Things we invented in 2017

Published: Dec. 6, 2017, 5:19 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 17 seconds

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The drone and satellite could become as important as the tractor to farmers

Published: Nov. 29, 2017, 5:20 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 5 seconds

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Robots are coming! They're running, jumping and doing the backflip to get here

Published: Nov. 22, 2017, 5:22 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 59 seconds

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Grass is always greener where you water it. That is the problem

Published: Nov. 15, 2017, 5:21 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 22 seconds

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Craft ice is a thing. And it’s coming to restaurant and bar near you

Published: Nov. 8, 2017, 5:22 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 58 seconds

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