The BOSS True Leaders Game Changers podcast series, produced in partnership with Optus Business, showcases some of the country's most ingenious and daring thinkers.

The four episodes in the series look at how scientific advances are reshaping health, society, education and technology, and examines how they are changing what it means to be human.

Host Dr Fiona McKenzie, a human geographer and co-founder of the Australian Futures Project, talks to eight extraordinary Australians about their work and how they see technology changing our lives and the human race.

In the fourth and final episode, Australian-born anthropologist, Boyer lecturer and former vice-president of Intel, Professor Genevieve Bell shares her understanding of why algorithms and data are so important to the way we live, and the inaugural chairman of Urban Science at the University of New South Wales, Professor Chris Pettit, talks about his recent experience at the World Expo of Smart Cities and sets out his ideas on how data can make our urban lives easier.

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