The Digital Human show

The Digital Human

Summary: Aleks Krotoski charts how digital culture is moulding modern living. Each week join technology journalist Aleks Krotoski as she goes beyond the latest gadget or web innovation to understand what sort of world we’re creating with our ‘always on’ lives.

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Podcasts:

 DH: Ethics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:07

Aleks Krotoski explores if you can embed ethics or morality into technology, and if so whose should they be?

 DH: Abandon | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:43

In this episode, Aleks Krotoski explores what happens when we abandon a place. Why is it so difficult for us to leave these places behind both on and offline?

 DH: Language | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:27

We communicate in more ways than ever but every tweet, text or blog post is based on a much earlier technology perhaps our first - language. Aleks Krotoski asks just how much of a technology is language and how has it been transformed by the digital world.

 DH: Risk | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:03

Aleks Krotoski asks if the 200,000 year old security software in our brains is up to the task of coping with modern day risks.

 DH: SELL | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:51

In this episode of Digital Human, Aleks Krotoski explores what we gain and what we lose, from selling ourselves online… The Digital Human was presented by Aleks Krotoski and produced in Edinburgh by Victoria McArthur and Elizabeth Anne Duffy.

 DH: Broken | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:08

Aleks Krotoski explores how our unwillingness to break things has changed out relationship with technology.

 DH: Quantize | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:01

Aleks Krotoski asks how human beings can make sense of a world saturated by data.

 DH: Whispers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:46

Aleks Krotoski asks if we're living in an age of misinformation.

 DH: Voice | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:06

Aleks Krotoski asks if our voices are being drown out by the cacophony of content online.

 DH: Time | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:55

In this episode of the Digital Human Aleks Krotoski explores the influence of one of our most pervasive technologies - the clock, and asks if it’s the only way to experience time.

 DH: Adaptation | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:27

Aleks Krotoski looks at how technology can help us adapt when our lives change.

 DH: Dark | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:58

Aleks Krotoski explores our relationship to the dark, and how reconciling ourselves to it - via technology, can be good for our physical and emotional wellbeing. Produced by Victoria McArthur and researched by Elizabeth Anne Duffy in Edinburgh.

 DH: Value | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:30

Presented by Aleks krotosk. When almost anything we want is available to buy at the click of mouse and so much content is available for free, is the digital changing how we value things?

 DH: Wander | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:11

Aleks Krotoski explores whether technology has impaired our ability to wander. Now that off-grid is on-grid, and we can send emails from mountaintops, have we sacrificed the pleasure of travelling to discover the unknown? Produced by Victoria McArthur and researched by Elizabeth Anne Duffy in Edinburgh.

 DH: Urban | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:22

Aleks Krotoski explore the future of cities.

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