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100
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Jun 2026
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Periodic look at the impact of future technologies on our lives - what can we do now to prepare for the next few years? Senior journalist Guy Clapperton presents a series of interviews with consultants, technologists and future thinkers in general that takes the shorter-term view rather than forecasting decades ahead. Want this voice at your event? Contact Guy to discuss!
Tropical rainforest damage, supply chain delays - so muck damage happens to the environment and we basically stand by and watch it. A company called Another Earth wants to do something more active and is developing synthetic data on our planet to support AI forecasting - co-founder and CEO Maya Pindeus explains to Near Futurist podcaster Guy Clapperton why this is important.
Tropical rainforest damage, supply chain delays - so muck damage happens to the environment and we basically stand by and watch it. A company called Another Earth wants to do something more active and is developing synthetic data on our planet to support AI forecasting - co-founder and CEO Maya Pindeus explains to Near Futurist podcaster Guy Clapperton why this is important.
Continuing the discussion with IOWN Global Forum with its technology director Dr. Masahisa Kawashima on why photonic networks are going to be important in the next few years. In this episode he explores more about the elimination of the need for personal computing and smartphones, how this will be good for the environment and of course the skill sets that will be required to put this into effect. Guy Clapperton is the interviewee as always.
If you're as old as Near Futurist Guy Clapperton you'll remember dial-up networks while everything in the office was connected by cable; now we have wireless networks almost ubiquitously, having seen copper, ISDN and now fibre underpinnings. But wait for it - there's a new standard in the offing. In this episode we offer the first part of a chat with Dr. Masahisa Kawashima, technology durector of IOWN Global Forum - a cross-industry group of 170 organisations working on photonic networking. Listen to find out why this is going to be important.
The concluding part of Guy Clapperton's interview with Emilee Tellez, field CTO of Veeam. How organised are hackers these days, how "professional" have they become - and how can someone follow Emilee herself in starting off in sales and ending up on the board as a technologist?
The Near Futurist remains on a security theme as Guy Clapperton explores best practice with EmileeTellez, field CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of Veeam in the first part of this interview. Why do board members so often think their tech is safe while the actual IT staff are panicking - and why, even now, are so few of the tech staff women?
The second part of Guy Clapperton's interview with Glen Williams, CEO of security specialist Cyberfort. This time we explore certifications and what you need to be aware of when engaging a security specialist; also why a certificate is a snapshot rather than a guarantee.
Tech security has gone way beyond basic antivirus protection - in this next interview spanning two weeks, Guy Clapperton talks to Glen Williams, CEO of Cyberfort, about how the threat is evolving and what really hasn't changed.
Guy Clapperton concludes his conversation with Lawrence Rosenberg of Rosenberg.media about the future of public relations and communications - where AI is going to fit and more importantly why the human factor is going to be more important than ever. Also covered: ageism and false positives.
The fifth series of the Near Futurist kicks off with an interview with Lawrence Rosenberg. Fresh from his run on this years's "The Apprentice" he is setting up his own PR company, Rosenberg.media, and he has ideas on where the industry should be going.
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