The Digital Human is pausing to focus on what everyone's talking about - AI
Aleks explores how AI can aid in the care of people living with dementia.
Aleks Krotoski explores the durability of existence in the digital world.
Aleks Krotoski traces the origin of an iconic internet curse - Smile Dog.
Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world.
From AI to offline, Aleks Krotoski explores dating in the digital world
How can we get what we need from synthetic human companions?
Aleks Krotoski looks at the digital world and those quitting it and dropping out.
Aleks discovers if high tech megaprojects will be utopian dreams, or crumbling follies.
Aleks Krotoski explores what it means to reunite in the digital world.
Aleks seeks out the last people selling, and experimenting with, floppy disks.
Aleks Krotoski looks up from the screen to the heavens and the tech orbiting the planet.
How can we avoid being silenced by AI moderation? Aleks explores the rise of Algospeak.
Aleks Krotoski explores what happens when, once freely given, data turns dangerous.
Aleks Krotoski explores the value of retreat from the outside world, both on and offline.
Aleks Krotoksi examines how we salvage value from legacy systems, structures and objects.
Aleks Krotoski explores whether the digital world results in more unfinished business.
When algorithms choose who can see what, what becomes of our relationship with the arts?
When AI art generators produce images in seconds, where can human imagination bloom?
Aleks Krotoski explores Schadenfreude in the digital world.
Aleks Krotoski asks how far we can trust digital technology implanted in our bodies.
Aleks Krotoski asks, how you fabricate a believable life if everything is out in the open?
Aleks Krotoski explores disinhibition in the digital world
Aleks Krotoski explores how we deal with technological paradigm shifts.
Aleks discovers how the digital economy has reshaped class and the rights of workers.
Aleks Krotoski explores how the internet strayed so far from its original purpose.
Aleks Krotoski explores what it means to be solitary in our digital world.
Aleks Krotoski asks if we've all become techno-fundamentalists.
Aleks Krotoski finds out what happens when everything becomes a token.
Aleks Krotoski asks if AI companions will be like imaginary friends of childhood.
Aleks discovers if the digital world is still one that can be a force for good?
Aleks Krotoski explores who owns the function of the devices we use.
Aleks Krotoski asks why we're always yearning for new technological solution to problems?
Aleks Krotoski discovers how Hacktivists operate in Europe's last dictatorship.
Aleks Krotoski asks how the online crowd can turn folk wisdom into misinformation.
Aleks Krotoski explores what context collapse could mean in the metaverse.
Where did those deplatformed after the Jan 6th riots go and what have they been doing?
Aleks Krotoski asks if how we use technology has affected our attitudes to ephemerality.
Why are tech companies building a multi-billion dollar AI industry on discredited science?
Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world.
Aleks Krotoski explores what can happen when the good & bad guys have access to encryption
Aleks Krotoski explores the relationships between content creators and their audience.
Aleks Krotoski explores the age old human urge to cheat.
Aleks Krotoski explores what it's like to be 'villain of the day' on social media.
Aleks Krotoski on how ordinary people stepped in to save lives during India's second wave.
Aleks Krotoski explores the impact of Sci-hub.
Aleks Krotoski talks to the children of parents now lost to them because of QAnon.
Aleks discovers how software can leave a legacy.
Aleks Krotoski explores how we can preserve video games.
Aleks Krotoski on why the world for people who need to hide is becoming increasingly small
Aleks Krotoski discovers why people want to control their dreams.
Aleks Krotoski explores the importance of novelty and if the digital world can provide it.
Aleks Krotoski hunts for treasure in the digital world.
Aleks Krotoski asks why only the malicious breed of troll seems to thrive online.
Aleks Krotoski explores how toys might influence our technological futures.
Aleks Krotoski explores content versus culture in the digital word.
Aleks Krotoski asks what digitally native monster myths tell us about our fears of tech.
Aleks Krotoski explores the sacred
Aleks Krotoski explores the digital night.
Aleks Krotoski explores how remote working changes the dynamics of trust.
Aleks Krotoski asks if crowdfunding is the magic bullet for the post pandemic economy.
Aleks Krotoski asks if moving our lives online has given us a false sense of normality.
Aleks Krotoski explores how quickly and easily misinformation can spread online.
Aleks Krotoski explores the role of techology in lifting us above our realities.
Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world.
Aleks Krotoski discovers how to live symbiotically with technology.
Aleks asks if Covid-19 is a technological accelerator, giving a glimpse into the future.
How has technology extended the reach of emotional abuse?
Aleks Krotoski asks, who will we be in the age of automation, AI and post-scarcity?
Aleks Krotoski explores our urge to converge.
Aleks Krotoski finds out what happens when we are all turned into digital lab rats.
Aleks Krotoski explores how the online space is changing our social connections.
Aleks Krotoski explores an example of unintended consequences in the digital world.
Aleks Krotoski asks whether we still have the option to remain faceless.
"He's not the messiah..."
Aleks Krotoski tells a story of where divinity, technology and mental illness all collide.
Aleks Krotoski on how social media is being used as a character witness to convict.
Aleks Krotoski wants to have an uncomfortable conversation.
Aleks Krotoski explores if some our anxieties around AI and automation are cultural.
Aleks Krotoski takes a look at the space between us.
Aleks Krotoski asks what it is that draws people to the dark corners of the web.
Aleks Krotoski explores the tension between storytelling and privacy online.
Aleks Krotoski explores the thin line between passion and obsession online.
Aleks Krotoski celebrates the 100th Digital Human with a special analogue episode.
Are we using tech as a digital sedative? Aleks explores why we want to numb ourselves.
Aleks Krotoski explores whether it is possible to find a haven online.
Aleks Krotoski explores the impact digital technology is having on the way we live.
Aleks Krotoski finds out if wisdom, or only data, can be shared in the digital world.
Aleks Krotoski explores what happens when an online illusion meets reality.
Aleks Krotoski explores why science is being drowned out by Snake Oil online.
Aleks Krotoski asks 'has the internet been gentrified?'
Can technology empower a person to turn from a victim to a rescuer?
Aleks Krotoski explores if how we treat our robots impacts how we treat one another.
Aleks Krotoski explores the unexpected advantages of average.
Aleks Krotoski explores the disconnect between real life flaws and the perfect life online
Why do we sometimes remain silent when others need help? Aleks explores why we hold back.
Aleks Krotoski discovers how the information others have about you affects your life.
Aleks Krotoski asks whether we can become detached from ourselves using technology.
Aleks Krotoski wonders if it's possible to convey a sense of joyful abandon online...
Aleks Krotoski enters the world of the unnoticed, all the content that no-one ever sees.
Aleks Krotoski explores how effective the digital world is as a confidante.
Aleks Krotoski explores regret, those moments of should have, could have, would have.
Aleks Krotoski explores the unforeseen consequences of a frictionless digital life.
Aleks Krotoski explores living in a digital world.
Aleks Krotoski asks if blaming social media for recent political upheaval misses the point
Aleks Krotoski asks if there are some things that we would be better off not knowing.
Aleks Krotoski discovers how a face changes a robot from a machine into a social being.
Aleks Krotoski considers the concept of 'tribe' in the modern world.
Aleks Krotoski looks at how our online world can be a portal to a better physical world.
Aleks Krotoski asks if technology is changing our experience and relationship with shame.
Aleks Krotoski asks why we just cannot get enough of what our digital devices dish up.
Aleks Krotoski explores living in a digital world.
Aleks Krotoski explores the world of spam, scams and caches of forgotten gold.
Aleks Krotoski explores whether we use rituals enough in the digital world.
Aleks Krotoski uncovers the harm that comes to those keeping the internet safe.
In a digital world Aleks explores whether silence is becoming harder to experience.
Follow The Digital Human's Aleks Krotoski as she heads down a rabbit hole.
Aleks Krotoski explores how much of what we do online is akin to talking to ourselves.
Aleks Krotoski explores to what extent technology can tap into our unconscious mind.
Aleks Krotoski asks what it means to be authentic in a digital world full of filters.
Aleks Krotoski explores the role of digital media in our age of anger.
Aleks Krotoski asks if what we find funny has changed with digital media.
Aleks Krotoski explores whether technology can allow us to walk in another man's shoes.
Aleks Krotoski asks if we are haunted by our technology, or are we haunting it?
Aleks Krotoski explores whether it's true that, 'I'm recorded, therefore I am'.
Aleks Krotoski looks for the woman who made vlogging famous, then mysteriously disappeared
Aleks Krotoski explores the often ignored physicality of the digital world.
Aleks Krotoski explores why parents are so fearful of their children's technology use.
Aleks explores if people are more likely to find lost items using online social networks.
Aleks Krotoski compares technological solutions to our intuitive wayfinding skills.
Aleks Krotoski explores whether or not the digital world is changing food culture.
Aleks Krotoski asks whether home can be anywhere you can go online.
Aleks Krotoski looks at work in a digital world.
Aleks Krotoski explores how technology may be unlocking, and aping, human imagination.
Aleks Krotoski asks what the advent of digital technologies has meant for the human body.
Aleks Krotoski explores living in a digital world.
Aleks Krotoski explores the world of the digital doppelganger
The web is a gateway to online vigilantism, but heroic actions come with a price
Aleks Krotoski explores the impact of the web upon the age-old process of detection.
Aleks Krotoski asks if we know what to keep and what to throw away in the digital age.
Aleks Krotoski explores how technology is impacting on seduction.
Aleks Krotoski goes 'people watching' online and offline to find out how they differ.
Aleks Krotoski explores the overlap between technology and the natural world.
Aleks Krotoski explores if we treat technology like magic.
Aleks Krotoski explores the impact digital technology is having on secrets.
Aleks Krotoksi explores whether we can embed ethics into our technologies.
Aleks Krotoski examines what digital mapping has meant for our understanding of the world.
Aleks Krotoski explores if the internet is a nostalgia machine.
What happens when we abandon a place? Aleks explores abandon both on and offline.
Aleks Krotoski asks if language is a technology and how it has changed in the digital age.
Aleks Krotoski explores how our monkey brains cope with the risks of the digital world.
In the digital world everyone sells to us, and we sell ourselves to everyone.
Aleks Krotoski asks how the concept of broken has changed in a digital world.
Aleks Krotoski asks how human beings can cope with a world saturated by data.
Aleks Krotoski asks if the the digital world has ushered in an age of misinformation.
Aleks Krotoski asks if the digital world is muting the human voice.
Aleks Krotoski looks at our oldest and most universal technology - timekeeping.
Aleks Krotoski asks if we could all do with a detox from our digital devices.
Are our connected modern lives making us lonelier than ever?
Aleks Krotoski asks if the internet fuels the breakdown of social and moral boundaries.
On April Fool's Day, Aleks examines if mischief is an essential part of the online world.
Aleks Krotoski explores whether serendipity can exist in the digital world?
Aleks Krotoski looks at whether our online lives are transforming our experience of death.
Aleks Krotoski asks if we have all become cyborgs without even knowing it.
Aleks Krotoski looks at whether how we tell stories has changed with the digital world.
Aleks Krotoski looks at whether we have all become techno-fundamentalists.
Aleks Krotoski asks how digital devices are changing our memories.
How has the digital world changed the way opinions are voiced and shaped?
Aleks looks at how different cultures combat the homogenising effects of technology.
Aleks Krotoski looks at group think in the digital world.
Crush: Aleks Krotoski explores how the digital world has impacted upon love.
Aleks Krotoski looks at religious belief and the internet.
What is the biggest threat to privacy: governments, corporate entities or our friends?
Is control over one's digital life an illusion? And what happens if control is lost?
In a new series, Aleks Krotoski takes a journey through the digital world.
Aleks explores how technology can give someone back a life that had seemed gone forever.
We might want to drown it out in light, but as Aleks discovers darkness can be good for us
Aleks Krotoski asks if the digital world is changing how we value things.
Have we sacrificed the pleasure of travelling to discover new places and ourselves?
Aleks Krotoski explores what technology tells us about ourselves and the age we live in.
Aleks Krotoski asks if the digital world is allowing us to be more altruistic than ever.