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Hello and welcome to the bottom line.

Now, since the Industrial Revolution, we've seen many manual jobs taken over by machines.

In recent years, we've seen white-collar clerical jobs taken by

computers too. So today we'll ask what automation can do for us next. Could we develop machines

that can become lawyers and doctors, for example? And we're also going to talk about the corporate

away day. But we start, as always, by spending a few minutes meeting each of my

three guests. And first up, returning to the program is Mike Lynch, who's the founder and chief

executive of the software company, Autonomy. I should add, Mike, as also a member of the executive

board of the BBC. Mike, Aut autonomy makes software, quite sophisticated software,

which allows you to track, email, voice and video.

I hesitate to ask, but is it the sort of thing that would help in an investigation

of a corporation that, for example, had engaged in hacking?

Yes, we get involved in all of the big investigations,

so whether your unfortunate oil platform has had an accident

or your Wall Street bank has made a few mistakes,

or indeed you're a media group that's got a little out of control,

we end up looking through all the data at some point.

Do you?

So, I mean, are you involved, or you probably

can't tell us whether you're involved in news and international? Our technology is involved in some of the

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