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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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11, Accountancy, blockchain and people skills

Feb 15, 2019

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...

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10. Can artificial intelligence have ethics?

Feb 1, 2019

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...

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