The Digital Human is pausing to focus on what everyone's talking about - AI
Published on Monday, 19th February 2024.
Aleks explores how AI can aid in the care of people living with dementia.
Published on Monday, 13th November 2023.
Aleks Krotoski explores the durability of existence in the digital world.
Published on Monday, 6th November 2023.
Aleks Krotoski traces the origin of an iconic internet curse - Smile Dog.
Published on Monday, 30th October 2023.
Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world.
Published on Monday, 23rd October 2023.
From AI to offline, Aleks Krotoski explores dating in the digital world
Published on Monday, 16th October 2023.
How can we get what we need from synthetic human companions?
Published on Monday, 9th October 2023.
Aleks Krotoski looks at the digital world and those quitting it and dropping out.
Published on Monday, 26th June 2023.
Aleks discovers if high tech megaprojects will be utopian dreams, or crumbling follies.
Published on Monday, 19th June 2023.
Aleks Krotoski explores what it means to reunite in the digital world.
Published on Monday, 12th June 2023.
Aleks seeks out the last people selling, and experimenting with, floppy disks.
Published on Monday, 5th June 2023.
Aleks Krotoski looks up from the screen to the heavens and the tech orbiting the planet.
Published on Monday, 29th May 2023.
How can we avoid being silenced by AI moderation? Aleks explores the rise of Algospeak.
Published on Monday, 22nd May 2023.
Aleks Krotoski explores what happens when, once freely given, data turns dangerous.
Published on Monday, 27th March 2023.
Aleks Krotoski explores the value of retreat from the outside world, both on and offline.
Published on Monday, 20th March 2023.
Aleks Krotoksi examines how we salvage value from legacy systems, structures and objects.
Published on Monday, 13th March 2023.
Aleks Krotoski explores whether the digital world results in more unfinished business.
Published on Monday, 6th March 2023.
When algorithms choose who can see what, what becomes of our relationship with the arts?
Published on Monday, 27th February 2023.
When AI art generators produce images in seconds, where can human imagination bloom?
Published on Monday, 20th February 2023.
Aleks Krotoski explores Schadenfreude in the digital world.
Published on Monday, 14th November 2022.
Aleks Krotoski asks how far we can trust digital technology implanted in our bodies.
Published on Monday, 7th November 2022.
Aleks Krotoski asks, how you fabricate a believable life if everything is out in the open?
Published on Monday, 31st October 2022.
Aleks Krotoski explores disinhibition in the digital world
Published on Monday, 24th October 2022.
Aleks Krotoski explores how we deal with technological paradigm shifts.
Published on Monday, 17th October 2022.
Aleks discovers how the digital economy has reshaped class and the rights of workers.
Published on Monday, 10th October 2022.
Aleks Krotoski explores how the internet strayed so far from its original purpose.
Published on Monday, 27th June 2022.
Aleks Krotoski explores what it means to be solitary in our digital world.
Published on Monday, 20th June 2022.
Aleks Krotoski asks if we've all become techno-fundamentalists.
Published on Monday, 13th June 2022.
Aleks Krotoski finds out what happens when everything becomes a token.
Published on Monday, 6th June 2022.
Aleks Krotoski asks if AI companions will be like imaginary friends of childhood.
Published on Monday, 30th May 2022.
Aleks discovers if the digital world is still one that can be a force for good?
Published on Monday, 23rd May 2022.
Aleks Krotoski explores who owns the function of the devices we use.
Published on Monday, 28th March 2022.
Aleks Krotoski asks why we're always yearning for new technological solution to problems?
Published on Monday, 21st March 2022.
Aleks Krotoski discovers how Hacktivists operate in Europe's last dictatorship.
Published on Monday, 14th March 2022.
Aleks Krotoski asks how the online crowd can turn folk wisdom into misinformation.
Published on Monday, 7th March 2022.
Aleks Krotoski explores what context collapse could mean in the metaverse.
Published on Monday, 28th February 2022.
Where did those deplatformed after the Jan 6th riots go and what have they been doing?
Published on Monday, 21st February 2022.
Aleks Krotoski asks if how we use technology has affected our attitudes to ephemerality.
Published on Monday, 15th November 2021.
Why are tech companies building a multi-billion dollar AI industry on discredited science?
Published on Monday, 8th November 2021.
Published on Monday, 1st November 2021.
Aleks Krotoski explores what can happen when the good & bad guys have access to encryption
Published on Monday, 25th October 2021.
Aleks Krotoski explores the relationships between content creators and their audience.
Published on Monday, 18th October 2021.
Aleks Krotoski explores the age old human urge to cheat.
Published on Monday, 11th October 2021.
Aleks Krotoski explores what it's like to be 'villain of the day' on social media.
Published on Monday, 28th June 2021.
Aleks Krotoski on how ordinary people stepped in to save lives during India's second wave.
Published on Monday, 21st June 2021.
Aleks Krotoski explores the impact of Sci-hub.
Published on Monday, 14th June 2021.
Aleks Krotoski talks to the children of parents now lost to them because of QAnon.
Published on Monday, 7th June 2021.
Aleks discovers how software can leave a legacy.
Published on Monday, 31st May 2021.
Aleks Krotoski explores how we can preserve video games.
Published on Tuesday, 25th May 2021.
Aleks Krotoski on why the world for people who need to hide is becoming increasingly small
Published on Monday, 29th March 2021.
Aleks Krotoski discovers why people want to control their dreams.
Published on Monday, 22nd March 2021.
Aleks Krotoski explores the importance of novelty and if the digital world can provide it.
Published on Monday, 15th March 2021.
Aleks Krotoski hunts for treasure in the digital world.
Published on Monday, 8th March 2021.
Aleks Krotoski asks why only the malicious breed of troll seems to thrive online.
Published on Monday, 1st March 2021.
Aleks Krotoski explores how toys might influence our technological futures.
Published on Monday, 22nd February 2021.
Aleks Krotoski explores content versus culture in the digital word.
Published on Monday, 16th November 2020.
Aleks Krotoski asks what digitally native monster myths tell us about our fears of tech.
Published on Monday, 9th November 2020.
Aleks Krotoski explores the sacred
Published on Monday, 2nd November 2020.
Aleks Krotoski explores the digital night.
Published on Monday, 26th October 2020.
Aleks Krotoski explores how remote working changes the dynamics of trust.
Published on Monday, 19th October 2020.
Aleks Krotoski asks if crowdfunding is the magic bullet for the post pandemic economy.
Published on Monday, 12th October 2020.
Aleks Krotoski asks if moving our lives online has given us a false sense of normality.
Published on Monday, 29th June 2020.
Aleks Krotoski explores how quickly and easily misinformation can spread online.
Published on Monday, 22nd June 2020.
Aleks Krotoski explores the role of techology in lifting us above our realities.
Published on Monday, 15th June 2020.
Published on Monday, 8th June 2020.
Aleks Krotoski discovers how to live symbiotically with technology.
Published on Monday, 1st June 2020.
Aleks asks if Covid-19 is a technological accelerator, giving a glimpse into the future.
Published on Monday, 25th May 2020.
How has technology extended the reach of emotional abuse?
Published on Monday, 30th March 2020.
Aleks Krotoski asks, who will we be in the age of automation, AI and post-scarcity?
Published on Monday, 23rd March 2020.
Aleks Krotoski explores our urge to converge.
Published on Monday, 16th March 2020.
Aleks Krotoski finds out what happens when we are all turned into digital lab rats.
Published on Monday, 9th March 2020.
Aleks Krotoski explores how the online space is changing our social connections.
Published on Monday, 2nd March 2020.
Aleks Krotoski explores an example of unintended consequences in the digital world.
Published on Monday, 24th February 2020.
Aleks Krotoski asks whether we still have the option to remain faceless.
Published on Monday, 25th November 2019.
"He's not the messiah..."
Published on Monday, 18th November 2019.
Aleks Krotoski tells a story of where divinity, technology and mental illness all collide.
Published on Monday, 11th November 2019.
Aleks Krotoski on how social media is being used as a character witness to convict.
Published on Monday, 4th November 2019.
Aleks Krotoski wants to have an uncomfortable conversation.
Published on Monday, 28th October 2019.
Aleks Krotoski explores if some our anxieties around AI and automation are cultural.
Published on Monday, 21st October 2019.
Aleks Krotoski takes a look at the space between us.
Published on Monday, 8th July 2019.
Aleks Krotoski asks what it is that draws people to the dark corners of the web.
Published on Monday, 1st July 2019.
Aleks Krotoski explores the tension between storytelling and privacy online.
Published on Monday, 24th June 2019.
Aleks Krotoski explores the thin line between passion and obsession online.
Published on Monday, 17th June 2019.
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.
Published on Monday, 3rd June 2019.
Aleks Krotoski explores whether it is possible to find a haven online.
Published on Monday, 22nd April 2019.
Aleks Krotoski explores the impact digital technology is having on the way we live.
Published on Tuesday, 16th April 2019.
Aleks Krotoski finds out if wisdom, or only data, can be shared in the digital world.
Published on Monday, 15th April 2019.
Aleks Krotoski explores what happens when an online illusion meets reality.
Published on Monday, 8th April 2019.
Aleks Krotoski explores why science is being drowned out by Snake Oil online.
Published on Monday, 25th March 2019.
Aleks Krotoski asks 'has the internet been gentrified?'
Published on Monday, 18th March 2019.
Can technology empower a person to turn from a victim to a rescuer?
Published on Monday, 29th October 2018.
Aleks Krotoski explores if how we treat our robots impacts how we treat one another.
Published on Monday, 22nd October 2018.
Aleks Krotoski explores the unexpected advantages of average.
Published on Monday, 15th October 2018.
Aleks Krotoski explores the disconnect between real life flaws and the perfect life online
Published on Monday, 8th October 2018.
Why do we sometimes remain silent when others need help? Aleks explores why we hold back.
Published on Monday, 1st October 2018.
Aleks Krotoski discovers how the information others have about you affects your life.
Published on Monday, 24th September 2018.
Aleks Krotoski asks whether we can become detached from ourselves using technology.
Published on Monday, 25th June 2018.
Aleks Krotoski wonders if it's possible to convey a sense of joyful abandon online...
Published on Monday, 18th June 2018.
Aleks Krotoski enters the world of the unnoticed, all the content that no-one ever sees.
Published on Monday, 11th June 2018.
Aleks Krotoski explores how effective the digital world is as a confidante.
Published on Monday, 4th June 2018.
Aleks Krotoski explores regret, those moments of should have, could have, would have.
Published on Monday, 28th May 2018.
Aleks Krotoski explores the unforeseen consequences of a frictionless digital life.
Published on Monday, 21st May 2018.
Aleks Krotoski explores living in a digital world.
Published on Tuesday, 27th March 2018.
Aleks Krotoski asks if blaming social media for recent political upheaval misses the point
Published on Monday, 19th March 2018.
Aleks Krotoski asks if there are some things that we would be better off not knowing.
Published on Monday, 12th March 2018.
Aleks Krotoski discovers how a face changes a robot from a machine into a social being.
Published on Monday, 5th March 2018.
Aleks Krotoski considers the concept of 'tribe' in the modern world.
Published on Monday, 26th February 2018.
Aleks Krotoski looks at how our online world can be a portal to a better physical world.
Published on Monday, 19th February 2018.
Aleks Krotoski asks if technology is changing our experience and relationship with shame.
Published on Monday, 6th November 2017.
Aleks Krotoski asks why we just cannot get enough of what our digital devices dish up.
Published on Monday, 30th October 2017.
Published on Monday, 23rd October 2017.
Aleks Krotoski explores the world of spam, scams and caches of forgotten gold.
Published on Monday, 16th October 2017.
Aleks Krotoski explores whether we use rituals enough in the digital world.
Published on Monday, 9th October 2017.
Aleks Krotoski uncovers the harm that comes to those keeping the internet safe.
Published on Monday, 2nd October 2017.
In a digital world Aleks explores whether silence is becoming harder to experience.
Published on Monday, 15th May 2017.
Follow The Digital Human's Aleks Krotoski as she heads down a rabbit hole.
Published on Tuesday, 9th May 2017.
Aleks Krotoski explores how much of what we do online is akin to talking to ourselves.
Published on Monday, 1st May 2017.
Aleks Krotoski explores to what extent technology can tap into our unconscious mind.
Published on Monday, 24th April 2017.
Aleks Krotoski asks what it means to be authentic in a digital world full of filters.
Published on Monday, 17th April 2017.
Aleks Krotoski explores the role of digital media in our age of anger.
Published on Monday, 10th April 2017.
Aleks Krotoski asks if what we find funny has changed with digital media.
Published on Monday, 14th November 2016.
Aleks Krotoski explores whether technology can allow us to walk in another man's shoes.
Published on Monday, 7th November 2016.
Aleks Krotoski asks if we are haunted by our technology, or are we haunting it?
Published on Monday, 31st October 2016.
Aleks Krotoski explores whether it's true that, 'I'm recorded, therefore I am'.
Published on Monday, 24th October 2016.
Aleks Krotoski looks for the woman who made vlogging famous, then mysteriously disappeared
Published on Tuesday, 18th October 2016.
Aleks Krotoski explores the often ignored physicality of the digital world.
Published on Monday, 10th October 2016.
Aleks Krotoski explores why parents are so fearful of their children's technology use.
Published on Monday, 9th May 2016.
Aleks explores if people are more likely to find lost items using online social networks.
Published on Monday, 2nd May 2016.
Aleks Krotoski compares technological solutions to our intuitive wayfinding skills.
Published on Monday, 25th April 2016.
Aleks Krotoski explores whether or not the digital world is changing food culture.
Published on Monday, 18th April 2016.
Aleks Krotoski asks whether home can be anywhere you can go online.
Published on Monday, 11th April 2016.
Aleks Krotoski looks at work in a digital world.
Published on Monday, 4th April 2016.
Aleks Krotoski explores how technology may be unlocking, and aping, human imagination.
Published on Monday, 16th November 2015.
Aleks Krotoski asks what the advent of digital technologies has meant for the human body.
Published on Monday, 9th November 2015.
Published on Monday, 2nd November 2015.
Aleks Krotoski explores the world of the digital doppelganger
Published on Monday, 26th October 2015.
The web is a gateway to online vigilantism, but heroic actions come with a price
Published on Tuesday, 20th October 2015.
Aleks Krotoski explores the impact of the web upon the age-old process of detection.
Published on Monday, 12th October 2015.
Aleks Krotoski asks if we know what to keep and what to throw away in the digital age.
Published on Monday, 18th May 2015.
Aleks Krotoski explores how technology is impacting on seduction.
Published on Monday, 11th May 2015.
Aleks Krotoski goes 'people watching' online and offline to find out how they differ.
Published on Monday, 4th May 2015.
Aleks Krotoski explores the overlap between technology and the natural world.
Published on Wednesday, 29th April 2015.
Aleks Krotoski explores if we treat technology like magic.
Published on Monday, 20th April 2015.
Aleks Krotoski explores the impact digital technology is having on secrets.
Published on Monday, 13th April 2015.
Aleks Krotoksi explores whether we can embed ethics into our technologies.
Published on Monday, 17th November 2014.
Aleks Krotoski examines what digital mapping has meant for our understanding of the world.
Published on Monday, 10th November 2014.
Aleks Krotoski explores if the internet is a nostalgia machine.
Published on Monday, 3rd November 2014.
What happens when we abandon a place? Aleks explores abandon both on and offline.
Published on Monday, 27th October 2014.
Aleks Krotoski asks if language is a technology and how it has changed in the digital age.
Published on Monday, 20th October 2014.
Aleks Krotoski explores how our monkey brains cope with the risks of the digital world.
Published on Monday, 13th October 2014.
In the digital world everyone sells to us, and we sell ourselves to everyone.
Published on Wednesday, 14th May 2014.
Aleks Krotoski asks how the concept of broken has changed in a digital world.
Published on Monday, 5th May 2014.
Aleks Krotoski asks how human beings can cope with a world saturated by data.
Published on Monday, 28th April 2014.
Aleks Krotoski asks if the the digital world has ushered in an age of misinformation.
Published on Monday, 21st April 2014.
Aleks Krotoski asks if the digital world is muting the human voice.
Published on Monday, 14th April 2014.
Aleks Krotoski looks at our oldest and most universal technology - timekeeping.
Published on Monday, 7th April 2014.
Aleks Krotoski asks if we could all do with a detox from our digital devices.
Published on Monday, 17th February 2014.
Are our connected modern lives making us lonelier than ever?
Aleks Krotoski asks if the internet fuels the breakdown of social and moral boundaries.
Published on Monday, 10th February 2014.
On April Fool's Day, Aleks examines if mischief is an essential part of the online world.
Published on Friday, 31st January 2014.
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.
Published on Tuesday, 28th January 2014.
Crush: Aleks Krotoski explores how the digital world has impacted upon love.
Published on Monday, 27th January 2014.
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.
Published on Monday, 11th November 2013.
We might want to drown it out in light, but as Aleks discovers darkness can be good for us
Published on Monday, 4th November 2013.
Aleks Krotoski asks if the digital world is changing how we value things.
Published on Monday, 28th October 2013.
Have we sacrificed the pleasure of travelling to discover new places and ourselves?
Published on Monday, 21st October 2013.
Aleks Krotoski explores what technology tells us about ourselves and the age we live in.
Published on Monday, 14th October 2013.
Aleks Krotoski asks if the digital world is allowing us to be more altruistic than ever.
Published on Tuesday, 8th October 2013.
