The Digital Human

Aleks Krotoski looks at whether we've all become techno-fundamentalists. Do we know what all our technology is for or mo... Read more

If a driverless car has to choose between crashing you into a school bus or a wall who do you want to be programming tha... Read more

Aleks talks to Tinder users Harriet Southgate and Kira Cheers who speak not only about the seductive nature of the app, ... Read more

Our personal space is like an invisible sphere around us, reaching from our bodies at the centre to the tips of our fing... Read more

The internet has facilitated an explosion in opinion. Some people's views you'll agree with, other's you'll find abhorre... Read more

Since ancient Greece and probably before we've always used metaphors drawn from our current technology to understand our... Read more

We live in a world where the nostalgia for the past now permeates our present.With online trends like 'Throw Back Thursd... Read more

Geoff Lean was in a coma for a month, during this time he could hear and feel everything but it wasn't until he woke up ... Read more

What is happening to us, now that we have access to all the world’s knowledge at our fingertips? If the headlines are to... Read more

Aleks Krotoski explores living in a digital world.

To celebrate the 100th episode of The Digital Human Aleks Krotoski explores how digital and analogue technologies make u... Read more

Aleks Krotoski explores life in the digital world. What makes us laugh and why? And when so much of the web is there to ... Read more

Social media is about stories, and what's more interesting - to you at least - than telling your own? When you post, you... Read more

Aleks explores how technology can increase self -efficacy and therefore our belief that we can rescue others. Aleks dis... Read more

In world where we are constantly told we are all exceptional and unique, Aleks Krotoski explores the unexpected affordan... Read more

Jane Charlton suffers from depersonalisation leaving her sense of self fragmented. In order to construct her sense of se... Read more

Aleks explores how the digital world has changed our idea of selling. In a world where every click is a selling opportun... Read more

Digital Assistant bots are becoming ever more common - Alexa playing music on your countertop, Siri taking notes on your... Read more

Violent content online has rightly been condemned. Yet while we criticise those facilitating the supply we rarely talk a... Read more

In this episode of The Digital Human Aleks Krotoski asks if social media is creating a new era of shame. Psychotherapis... Read more