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The Digital Human

Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world

Radio 4,183 episodes

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The Digital Human is pausing to focus on what everyone's talking about - AI
19 Feb 2024,1 min
Series 30
Reminiscence
Aleks explores how AI can aid in the care of people living with dementia.
13 Nov 2023,29 mins
Series 30
Permanence
Aleks Krotoski explores the durability of existence in the digital world.
06 Nov 2023,27 mins
Series 30
Cursed
Aleks Krotoski traces the origin of an iconic internet curse - Smile Dog.
30 Oct 2023,28 mins
Series 30
Subvert
Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world.
23 Oct 2023,28 mins
Series 30
Matchmaker
From AI to offline, Aleks Krotoski explores dating in the digital world
16 Oct 2023,28 mins
Series 30
Synthetic
How can we get what we need from synthetic human companions?
09 Oct 2023,29 mins
Series 29
Nope
Aleks Krotoski looks at the digital world and those quitting it and dropping out.
26 Jun 2023,28 mins
Series 29
Utopia
Aleks discovers if high tech megaprojects will be utopian dreams, or crumbling follies.
19 Jun 2023,28 mins
Series 29
Reunited
Aleks Krotoski explores what it means to reunite in the digital world.
12 Jun 2023,28 mins
Series 29
Disk
Aleks seeks out the last people selling, and experimenting with, floppy disks.
05 Jun 2023,29 mins
Series 29
The Orbital Human
Aleks Krotoski looks up from the screen to the heavens and the tech orbiting the planet.
29 May 2023,30 mins
Series 29
Dialogue
How can we avoid being silenced by AI moderation? Aleks explores the rise of Algospeak.
22 May 2023,28 mins
Series 28
Overturn
Aleks Krotoski explores what happens when, once freely given, data turns dangerous.
27 Mar 2023,29 mins
Series 28
Retreat
Aleks Krotoski explores the value of retreat from the outside world, both on and offline.
20 Mar 2023,28 mins
Series 28
Salvage
Aleks Krotoksi examines how we salvage value from legacy systems, structures and objects.
13 Mar 2023,29 mins
Series 28
Unfinished
Aleks Krotoski explores whether the digital world results in more unfinished business.
06 Mar 2023,28 mins
Series 28
Curate
When algorithms choose who can see what, what becomes of our relationship with the arts?
27 Feb 2023,29 mins
Series 28
Generate
When AI art generators produce images in seconds, where can human imagination bloom?
20 Feb 2023,29 mins
Series 26
Schadenfreude
Aleks Krotoski explores Schadenfreude in the digital world.
14 Nov 2022,29 mins
Series 26
Implant
Aleks Krotoski asks how far we can trust digital technology implanted in our bodies.
07 Nov 2022,28 mins
Series 26
Bona Fide
Aleks Krotoski asks, how you fabricate a believable life if everything is out in the open?
31 Oct 2022,29 mins
Series 26
Disinhibition
Aleks Krotoski explores disinhibition in the digital world
24 Oct 2022,27 mins
Series 26
Paradigm
Aleks Krotoski explores how we deal with technological paradigm shifts.
17 Oct 2022,29 mins
Series 26
Power
Aleks discovers how the digital economy has reshaped class and the rights of workers.
10 Oct 2022,29 mins
Series 26
Flip
Aleks Krotoski explores how the internet strayed so far from its original purpose.
27 Jun 2022,29 mins
Series 26
Solitary
Aleks Krotoski explores what it means to be solitary in our digital world.
20 Jun 2022,28 mins
Series 26
Unintended
Aleks Krotoski asks if we've all become techno-fundamentalists.
13 Jun 2022,28 mins
Series 26
Token
Aleks Krotoski finds out what happens when everything becomes a token.
06 Jun 2022,29 mins
Series 26
Reflections
Aleks Krotoski asks if AI companions will be like imaginary friends of childhood.
30 May 2022,29 mins