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Smart Cities are becoming a thing, and Simon Kenny of Hoptroff believes he knows what will make them work – super-accurate timing.
But there will also be massive data storage and who’s going to pay for that – and what will they want in return? Guy Clapperton discusses the ethical as well as technical issues in this 20 minute programme.
Nation states may be attacking our water supplies and other basic utilities but there are steps we can take. Galina Antova, co-founder of Claroty, talks near futurist Guy Clapperton through the issues.
And yes, she does clarify how certain she is when accusing nation states of crimes!
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Do you own a business and base its value on your intellectual property? This may be a bad move if Ross Mason of Mulesoft is right in his conversation with Near Futurist Guy Clapperton. He sees a future in which we build value from components and from data.
He also looks into AI and ethics and is cautious about the effect it’s all having on the world – politics, elections, everything, and it’s being left to the tech companies to police themselves.
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The producer has a new computer and there’s something odd about the sound setup – don’t adjust your own system, the slight distortion is an effect at this end.
Can you be humble but confident? Ambitious but human? Alison Maitland of Lane4 thinks it’s going to be essential in the next evolution of management thinking. She talks to Near Futurist Guy Clapperton about where management thinking is going and why she thinks this – and why it’s not just another passing fad (which was of course one of the things I asked).
And yes thanks, I had a very nice month off – back to the usual fortnightly schedule now!
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The robots are coming and they will make low-grade, tedious jobs redundant, that’s a given by now. Guy Clapperton’s interviewees this week, James Ewing of Digital Workforce and Oleg Rogynsky of People.ai, welcome the prospect – but they are concerned there needs to be regulations and at this stage the nearest we have come from Isaac Asimov (which is fine and people keep quoting it but as Guy points out, that’s actually a work of fiction).
This episode looks at ethics, regulation and just how intelligent robotic process automation (RPA) is becoming.
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It’s 50 years ago this week that Neil Armstrong first stepped out of Apollo 11 and onto the moon’s surface, followed by Buzz Aldrin (and don’t you feel sorry for Michael Collins, who had to stay in the capsule for the duration). Cooped up, uncomfortable – and of course we’re still travelling in space, to the International Space Station and back.
So who looks after the comfort of the modern astronauts, how do they get the data and how do they process it? Near Futurist Guy Clapperton had a chat with David Meza, knowledge architect at NASA, about how the process of gradual learning and improvement works.
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The Near Futurist was recently listed in the Top 10 Futurist Podcasts – my thanks to Anuj and the team for its inclusion.
Have you heard the one about the toothbrush that uses artificial intelligence to tell you to brush harder? Morey Haber of BeyondTrust has and it annoys him intensely. He’s seen a company sued because it claimed basic pattern recognition was AI and it just wasn’t – and he’s had enough.
In this episode of the Near Futurist, he explains his view to Guy Clapperton – and how marketers calling everything AI are ultimately over-valuing their companies and their assets, against everyone’s interests but their own.Near
The weird thing about crypto currencies like Bitcoin is that although some people will sell them to you, you can’t actually spend them. Which is an odd sort of currency when you think about it. That may be about to change though, or so thinks Austin Kimm, chief operating officer of Crypterium; he has a particular angle on the topic but talks through why there needs to be crypto currency, how it’s a leveller and just who doesn’t like it.
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OK, look, it’s not the Near Futurist Guy Clapperton who ends up referencing Skynet and the Terminator in this episode – it’s Oliver Tavakoli, a serial executive who is currently CTO of Vectra. In this far-ranging interview he outlines the basics of artificial intelligence, robotic process automation, machine learning and deep learning – and also looks at where it’s all going. We’re not asking all the right questions about this – OK, we talk about eliminating boring jobs but what if one of those happens to be your livelihood?
Half an hour of thought-provoking dialogue with me, Guy Clapperton, and Oliver Tavakoli. If you enjoy it please do leave a review wherever you download from – and if you’re one of the people who’ve rated the podcast on iTunes and contributed towards its 4.8/5 rating, thank you!
Do you own the computer, phone or tablet on which you’re listening to this podcast? How about your house, your car? You may not do so for long. Tien Tzuo, ex-Salesforce.com and founder of Zuora, has written books on why the subscription economy is on the way. In this episode of the Near Futurist he takes time out to talk to Guy Clapperton about what’s changing, why – and why making 90% fewer cars really isn’t a disaster for the motor industry.
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