Piers talks with Dr. Ian Storey, lecturer in information systems at RMIT, about the virus, economic shocks, the future of work and growing pressure to wind back social isolation. Ian offers mathematical insights into exponential viral spread and human response to risk. We discuss privacy issues of the Australian Government’s mooted Covid-19 tracking app and worsening post-pandemic financial prospects for millennials. Ian reckons we’re going to need something akin to the 1930s New Deal in America – if that’s possible…
