Near futurist Guy Clapperton talks to ThoughtSpot founder and CEO Sudheesh Nair. Are we wasting our time with traditional searches from the obvious contenders? We may be better advised to look elsewhere and opt for relational search that can see one piece of data relative to another. This wide-ranging discussion covers fake news, opinion passing for fact and then there’s the small matter of how voice devices will affect search in the future.

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Immigration is a problem and so is the skills shortage in technology. Karoli Hindriks, founder of Jobbatical, an IT recruitment company in Estonia, sees the clash and has been talking to governments including her own about setting up international visas so that the right staff can go to the right places as and when they’re needed.

In this episode, she discusses this and the reasons people might want to move on with Near Futurist Guy Clapperton.

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Near futurist Guy Clapperton speaks to Dr. Michael Brooks, a doctor who is also a computer coder – and who is determined to persuade the medical establishment that the still-used standard of storing loads of records on paper is harmful. He starts with the harrowing story of someone who had to go through an investigative procedure twice when the original results were lost – and the second time it didn’t go so well.

He also looks at human error and his ambition to get the medical industry’s error rate closer to the safety expected from the aviation industry.

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It started with a pitch about how people could effectively ‘teleport’ into Internet of Things connected devices, and how this could help make tech support easier than ever. It finished with a discussion on empathy, new and old skills needed for the new and connected world – and how customer experience is going to be even more dependent on empathetic skills than it was before.

Near Futurist Guy Clapperton talks to Andy Clarke, chief technology officer of RealVNC.

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There is enough electricity for electronic vehicles but have they stalled? (See what I did there?) Near Futurist Guy Clapperton talks to John Robb of Eaton about what needs to change before this technology really becomes mainstream, and shares a little about where not to put charging points. Will the government have us all using electronic vehicles by 2040? Robb may have some answers.

A 25 minute interview show with Guy Clapperton, technology journalist of 30 years’ standing. If you enjoy it why not leave a review where you downloaded it? 

And a warm welcome to the four figures worth who have joined our ranks of listeners over the last few weeks.

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We start in New York where Alen Paul Silverrsteein is picked up by “pharmacy executives” and carried into a room where there’s this guy…but that would be telling you the plot. We move through India, turning movies into 3D and discuss Pokemon, virtual reality and why augmented reality (AR)  apps will be more than a fad.

Alen Paul Silverrsteein is CEO of Imagination Park and we ought to have cut more but he’s such a terrific storyteller…

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Speaker and accountancy expert Mark Lee speaks to near futurist Guy Clapperton about why he’s an accountant and not a conjurer (no, he seriously trained and is a member of the Magic Circle), how accountants are going to need people skills rather than plain numeracy and how Blockchain is going to usher in the idea of triple ledger accounts.

You think your accountant lacks people skills? Lee predicts their demise in this podcast…

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Education isn’t fit for purpose when it comes to working alongside artificial intelligence – and we need to be teaching it some ethics, plus balancing it in terms of gender. Those are some of the strong views coming up in a conversation between Accenture’s AI lead in the UK, Emma Kendrew, and Guy Clapperton, the Near Futurist.

Employment, racism, homophobia, we got ’em this fortnight – the next episode will be online on 15 February.

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There are thousands of rare diseases out there and one of the biggest issues is linking the symptoms to the disease and then connecting them all to a patient. Tim Guilliams is co-founder of Healx and with a skeleton staff, of technologists rather than medical personnel, he aims to find cures for 100 of them by 2025.

It’s a bullish aim and the kicker is that the company is using artificial intelligence rather than medical skills to make it happen. In this episode of the Near Futurist he explains to Guy Clapperton why he believes this is realistic if ambitious, and why AI is the right way to go.

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Phrases like “gig economy” and “zero hours contracts” are rarely used in any positive sense but freelancing is increasingly important to the workplace, says Sarah Johnson, co-founder of consultancy The Akin. Her organization is very much a virtual set-up and in this episode of the Near Futurist she discusses how freelancers need to value themselves, how smarter and flexible working are developing and how managers need to adjust to this new world.

There are also notes on what’s happening in terms of women in senior roles, and even in 2019 she finds they are a disproportionate minority.

Ageism shot down, figures quoted and a great deal else – if you haven’t heard the Near Futurist podcast before this is a great place to jump in.

Oh, and since it’s our first of 2019, Happy New Year if we’re not too late..? And do please feel free to leave a review on the iTunes store if you like what you hear – it’s how a show like this starts to grow.

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