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Thanks for dropping by. My name is Guy Clapperton. I’ve been a tech journalist for 30 years and I love to interview experts on what's coming up.

I’ve called this podcast and the presentations I do with it “The Near-Futurist”. Click on "About" to find out more about my speaking; meanwhile the podcast episodes are below and there's a new one every month.

Dec 4, 2020

Anders Kohn of Aula speaks to Guy Clapperton about how students need more interactivity in their lectures, particularly in the online world. It's not about a generation gap, however - he discusses learnings from Facebook, Slack and how the changes had been coming anyway.

This fortnightly podcast will now take a break...


Nov 20, 2020

We've been working from home for months and there is more of it to come. Just to cheer us up even more Chris Morales, head of security analytics for Vectra, says a load of our commonly-used apps may be insecure.

He offers tips on what to do about this and they're not difficult. 

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Nov 6, 2020

Coronavirus has changed many things, one of which is that business and public sector have had to think "digital first". Returning guest Galina Antova, co-founder of Claroty, discusses how organisations coped depending on whether they were already thinking in those terms or suddenly had it forced on them.

Antova is...


Oct 23, 2020

Where are we with sustainable energy and how can we improve? James Kirk, CTO of ENSEK, talks figures, sustainability and data with near futurist Guy Clapperton.

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Oct 9, 2020

Author Kate Baucherel discusses her new book, Blockchain Hurricane, along with banking, durian fruit and science fiction writing with Near Futurist presenter Guy Clapperton.

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