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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.

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16. A Visa for IT?

Apr 26, 2019

Immigration is perceived as an issue by many people but 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...

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15. Are paper records killing us?

Apr 12, 2019

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...

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