The Near Futurist
Episodes
23. Robots and their rights
02 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The robots are coming and they will make low-grade, tedious jobs redundant, that's a given by now. Guy Clapperton's interviewees this week, James Ewin...
22. Space: the final comfort zone
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's 50 years ago this week that Neil Armstrong first stepped out of Apollo 11 and onto the moon's surface, followed by Buzz Aldrin (and don't you fee...
21. Is Artificial Intelligence a massive con?
05 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Have you heard the one about the toothbrush that uses artificial intelligence to tell you to brush harder? Morey Haber of BeyondTrust has and it annoy...
20. Brother can you spare a crypto dime
21 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The weird thing about crypto currencies like Bitcoin is that although some people will sell them to you, you can't actually spend them. Which is an od...
19. Machine learning - what will we learn?
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
OK, look, it's not the Near Futurist Guy Clapperton who ends up referencing Skynet and the Terminator in this episode - it's Oliver Tavakoli, a serial...