Obviously everyone is isolated and technology is helping with the educational needs of the young. However, in this episode of the Near Futurist podcast, Sparx CEO Dan Sandhu tells Guy Clapperton that once people understand all of the possibilities being opened up, they won’t want to go back to old fashioned learning.

He’s not an #AI geek, he isn’t advocating scrapping the classrooms. Instead he calls for an evidence-based approach and is determined to do something practical about it. Listen to the episode for more.

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Near Futurist Guy Clapperton speaks to London Dynamics founder and ex Ikea AR expert Michael Valdsgaard about how we’re going to be buying our furniture and other items in the near future – and the good news is that you don’t have to go out.

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Near Futurist Guy Clapperton interviews Etay Maor, chief tehnology officer of security specialist Insights. They explore mistakes people make but Maor also identifies a number of common errors that aren’t commonly reported – for example, how often do you remember to change passwords but still have all the ‘reset’ routines aimed at your gmail account?

Some excellent insights here if you’ll pardon the pun. If you like what you hear, why not leave a review on the iTunes website?

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Why do organisations treat learning tasks as if they were still at school? This isn’t the best way to assimilate skills, believes Steve Dineen, head of Fuse Universal. He talks us through experiential learning, why video can just repeat the mistakes we make on audio and a great deal else in this conversation with Near Futurist Guy Clapperton.

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In the early nineties Bill Gates wrote that we’d all be working remotely from home because of the Information Superhighway, and yet tech companies at least still cluster together. In this episode, Near Futurist Guy Clapperton speaks to Ben Brabyn, chief executive and investor advisor of Canary Wharf’s huge technology hub, Level 39 in One Canada Square, about why this should be – and the conversation moves on to just what sort of leaders we want and need in the technology world.

 

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There is a perception out there that artificial intelligence is ethically neutral – but can it be? Kyle Dent of PARC thinks not and he is involved in the company’s ethics committee as a result, and he wants to help the AI industry overall. He tells near futurist Guy Clapperton about it.

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One of my favourite games when speaking at conferences is to get people to realise they’ve all but stopped using cash. Which is fine and neutral – unless you’re one of the people without a bank account, or dependent on tips. Payment specialist Silvia Mensdorff-Pouilly (or just Silvia Mensdorff on some social media), general manager of ACI, feels that if cash is no longer king then contactless has to be kind – and inclusive. She discusses this with near futurist Guy Clapperton in this first episode of 2020.

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Customer experience is key in retail – and a lot of it is about technology these days, says Jacyn Heavens, founder of Epos Now in this interview with Near Futurist Guy Clapperton. It’s decades since we were assured the Internet would level the proverbial playing field and allow smaller players to compete with big business – is it finally happening?

This 22 minute show is the last Near Futurist podcast of the year. If you’ve been part of growing it from 200-odd diehard listeners in January to the 3500 who listened to it in November, thank you! It will return on 10 January.

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People are buying from people again given the chance and customer service and customer experience – that’s CX to the professionals – is leaving technology behind. That’s if you can afford it. Virna Sekuj of research organisation GlobalWebIndex speaks to #nearfuturist Guy Clapperton to discuss why people are coming back to the centre at a cost, where privacy is going a, why we’re becoming cashless nd a great deal more.

A 20 minute podcast, and the penultimate episode of the year!

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Near Futurist Guy Clapperton talks to Berndt Greifeneder, founder of Dynatrace, on the nature of artificial intelligence – what do we mean by it, what should we mean and how many businesses or public sector entities actually ask for it?

Greifeneder also has reservations connected to AI’s use in airports, in autonomous vehicles and elsewhere. Even as a practitioner, he has serious misgivings which he discusses openly in this latest edition.

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