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The Digital Human
Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world
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Listen to The Digital Human, a Science & Medicine podcast by BBC. Stream 181 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 181 episodesReminiscence
‘I asked myself this very question after a family member was affected by dementia. In her later years, the only person my grandmother still...
Permanence
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...
Cursed
Emails from friends should be safe. From a trusted friend especially. Hey, Aleks, check out this cool attachment. The message is a bit brief...
Subvert
Aleks Krotoski explores culture jamming in the digital world. Once used by "communications guerillas" to subvert corporate advertising, it's...
Matchmaker
Aleks Krotoski explores how matchmaking in the future will be influenced both by the emerging tech and our attitude towards it. Have we reac...
Synthetic
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...
Nope
Aleks Krotoski looks into the digital world. In this episode, we explore why people are rejecting a traditional relationship with tech, jobs...
Utopia
Our tech future will supposedly be defined by megaprojects. The most attention grabbing ideas include physical Megacities like ‘The Line’ in...
Reunited
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...
Disk
They were ubiquitous - taped onto magazines covers, bursting out of overstuffed office cabinet drawers, used to hold everything from secret...
The Orbital Human
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...
Dialogue
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...
Overturn
"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...
Retreat
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...
Salvage
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...
Unfinished
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...
Curate
In recent months anxiety around what algorithms will do to the arts has become a hot topic. Art, Literature, Music, all are being generated...
Generate
Art has, since time immemorial, been viewed as something quintessentially human. Many utopian visions of a technological future are based on...
Schadenfreude
What’s going on when we scroll through our social feeds finding momentary happiness in the mishaps of celebrities or politicians whose views...
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