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Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world
The Digital Human is pausing to focus on what everyone's talking about - AI. Join Aleks and her co-host Kevin Fong for The Artifical Human f...
‘I asked myself this very question after a family member was affected by dementia. In her later years, the only person my grandmother still...
Aleks Krotoski explores a story which sought to be forgotten, but wasn't. Agrippa (A Book of the Dead), was published in 1992. It was a book...
Emails from friends should be safe. From a trusted friend especially. Hey, Aleks, check out this cool attachment. The message is a bit brief...
Aleks Krotoski explores culture jamming in the digital world. Once used by "communications guerillas" to subvert corporate advertising, it's...
Aleks Krotoski explores how matchmaking in the future will be influenced both by the emerging tech and our attitude towards it. Have we reac...
With the rush of generative AI, we have the capacity to create synthetic companions that seem more human than ever before. They can talk in...
Aleks Krotoski looks into the digital world. In this episode, we explore why people are rejecting a traditional relationship with tech, jobs...
Our tech future will supposedly be defined by megaprojects. The most attention grabbing ideas include physical Megacities like ‘The Line’ in...
We’ve all seen those TV programmes (and perhaps shed a tear) when long lost family members are reunited. Who doesn’t love a fairytale ending...
They were ubiquitous - taped onto magazines covers, bursting out of overstuffed office cabinet drawers, used to hold everything from secret...
Now the fanfare of billionaires space adventures has died down we're left with the question of are we witnessing a new democratisation of sp...
We have been in an odd dialogue with algorithms from the very inception of the internet. They have been trained to spot offensive words, wit...
"Right now, and I mean this instant, delete every digital trace of any menstrual tracking. Please." This is a tweet that went viral in the w...
When the world feels as overwhelming as it has in recent years, it can be hard to fully disengage. Aleks Krotoski discovers the value of ret...
Online and offline, our world is a hugely complex tangle of modern creations and the legacy of the past. As we build upon the shoulders of t...
Ever had that gnawing feeling that there’s some unfinished business you have an itch to resolve? Maybe it’s a friendship you’ve let drift or...
In recent months anxiety around what algorithms will do to the arts has become a hot topic. Art, Literature, Music, all are being generated...
Art has, since time immemorial, been viewed as something quintessentially human. Many utopian visions of a technological future are based on...
What’s going on when we scroll through our social feeds finding momentary happiness in the mishaps of celebrities or politicians whose views...
Imagine being able to fix a malfunction in your body with a programmable smart device implanted deep inside your body… The device senses, mo...
Aleks was once asked by a friend to track down an invisible man - a character with no digital footprint at all. How does someone not exist i...
Aleks Krotoski explores whether disinhibition, often associated with toxic online behaviours such as trolling, may also have benefits in our...
Humans are special creatures, in part because of our relationship with out technology. Our brains are not purely biological, we actually thi...
Aleks discovers how the digital world has reshaped social class and the rights of workers, and finds out how those workers are using lessons...
The internet began as an academic tool, made to share information, bring people together and spur on advances that would benefit humans acro...
Aleks Krotoski explores what it means to be solitary in our digital world and whether we should be more nuanced in our approach to the compl...
Aleks Krotoski asks if we've all become techno-fundamentalists, unquestioningly accepting the latest innovation into our lives without think...
Economics has always been complicated, but the day to day stuff was always pretty straightforward. Make money from working, exchange that mo...
Aleks Krotoski asks if AI companions will be like imaginary friends of childhood. And if so will they afford the same benefits - making us b...
This year, The Digital Human celebrates its 10 year anniversary. During that time, we have explored all corners of the digital realm, and to...
Aleks Krotoski explores who owns the function of the devices we use, and why we need the right to repair and hack the things we consume.
Aleks Krotoski asks why we're always yearning for next technological solution to our problems? What is it that has driven us to the current,...
Alexander Lukashenko has proudly called himself 'Europe's last dictator'. He has held power in Belarus since 1994, and has been known to rep...
A special kind of wisdom is transmitted from generation to generation - proverbial knowledge with no basis in fact, but still intuitive: chi...
Offline, we as individuals present different sides of ourselves in different situations. We behave very differently with friends, employers,...
Aleks Krotoski asks where did all those groups and individuals deplatformed after the Jan 6th riots go and what have they been doing in the...
Aleks Krotoski asks if how we use technology has affected our attitudes to ephemerality and the transience of things. Producer: Peter McManu...
There are many ways in which the taint of prejudice, outdated ways of thinking and plain old human error can enter our artificial intelligen...
We've all had experiences of our attention wandering, usually at those moments when we most need to concentrate. But, in our productivity-dr...
If you want to send a message without any chance of it being intercepted then end-to-end encryption services are the way to do it. Governmen...
Aleks Krotoski explores the relationships between social media content creators and their audience, asking how does it get complicated when...
We all cheat at least a little bit, some of us in family games of monopoly, others on their taxes. Aleks asks if the digital era has made th...
Aleks Krotoski explores what it's like to be 'villain of the day' on social media. It seems every day an individual rightly or wrongly becom...
Dr Charu Smita, a media researcher in Delhi explains how as the social contract between middle class Indians and the Government, to provide...
Aleks Krotoski explores the impact of Sci-hub on science and the Open Access Movement.
Aleks Krotoski talks to the children of those lost to QAnon conspiracies. Many have sought support and advice in online forums where they ex...
Most banks, airlines even the military use legacy software because to replace it costs millions. Instead, as companies grow or change, old s...
Illustration by Seonaid MacKay The history of early cinema, radio, and television has suffered from a mass loss of material. Lon Chaney’s va...
In 2006 the creators of the alternate reality game, Perplex City set a puzzle challenge called Billion to One. With only one photograph and...