Series 16

Snake Oil

Aleks Krotoski explores why science is being drowned out by Snake Oil online.

• 29 mins

Series 16

Crutch

Aleks Krotoski explores the impact digital technology is having on the way we live.

• 28 mins

Series 16

Illusion

Aleks Krotoski explores what happens when an online illusion meets reality.

• 28 mins

Series 16

Wisdom

Aleks Krotoski finds out if wisdom, or only data, can be shared in the digital world.

• 28 mins

Series 16

Haven

Aleks Krotoski explores whether it is possible to find a haven online.

• 28 mins

Series 17

Numb

Are we using tech as a digital sedative? Aleks explores why we want to numb ourselves.

• 28 mins

Series 17

The Analogue Human

Aleks Krotoski celebrates the 100th Digital Human with a special analogue episode.

• 28 mins

Series 17

Obsession

Aleks Krotoski explores the thin line between passion and obsession online.

• 28 mins

Series 17

Cameo

Aleks Krotoski explores the tension between storytelling and privacy online.

• 28 mins

Series 17

Ghoul

Aleks Krotoski asks what it is that draws people to the dark corners of the web.

• 28 mins

Series 17

Between

Aleks Krotoski takes a look at the space between us.

• 28 mins

Series 18

Animism

Aleks Krotoski explores if some our anxieties around AI and automation are cultural.

• 39 mins

Series 18

Uncomfortable

Aleks Krotoski wants to have an uncomfortable conversation.

• 28 mins

Series 18

Character Witness

Aleks Krotoski on how social media is being used as a character witness to convict.

• 28 mins

Series 18

Devotion

Aleks Krotoski tells a story of where divinity, technology and mental illness all collide.

• 28 mins

Series 18

Messiah

"He's not the messiah..."

• 28 mins

Series 18

Faceless

Aleks Krotoski asks whether we still have the option to remain faceless.

• 28 mins

Series 19

Oops!

Aleks Krotoski explores an example of unintended consequences in the digital world.

• 28 mins

Series 19

Connections

Aleks Krotoski explores how the online space is changing our social connections.

• 28 mins

Series 19

Lab Rats

Aleks Krotoski finds out what happens when we are all turned into digital lab rats.

• 29 mins

Series 19

Sync

Aleks Krotoski explores our urge to converge.

• 29 mins

Series 19

Plenty

Aleks Krotoski asks, who will we be in the age of automation, AI and post-scarcity?

• 29 mins

Series 19

Coercion

How has technology extended the reach of emotional abuse?

• 29 mins

Series 20

Disrupted

Aleks asks if Covid-19 is a technological accelerator, giving a glimpse into the future.

• 28 mins

Series 20

Symbiosis

Aleks Krotoski discovers how to live symbiotically with technology.

• 28 mins

Series 20

Mourn

Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world.

• 29 mins

Series 20

Chrysalis

Aleks Krotoski explores the role of techology in lifting us above our realities.

• 28 mins

Series 20

Normal

Aleks Krotoski asks if moving our lives online has given us a false sense of normality.

• 28 mins

Series 20

Five Minutes

Aleks Krotoski explores how quickly and easily misinformation can spread online.

• 28 mins

Series 20

Saved

Aleks Krotoski explores how we can preserve video games.

• 29 mins

Series 20

Legacy

Aleks discovers how software can leave a legacy.

• 28 mins

Series 20

Orphaned

Aleks Krotoski talks to the children of parents now lost to them because of QAnon.

• 27 mins

Series 20

Shadow

Aleks Krotoski explores the impact of Sci-hub.

• 29 mins

Series 20

SOS

Aleks Krotoski on how ordinary people stepped in to save lives during India's second wave.

• 28 mins

Series 20

Vilify

Aleks Krotoski explores what it's like to be 'villain of the day' on social media.

• 29 mins

Series 21

Solidarity

Aleks Krotoski asks if crowdfunding is the magic bullet for the post pandemic economy.

• 29 mins

Series 21

Trust

Aleks Krotoski explores how remote working changes the dynamics of trust.

• 28 mins

Series 21

Nocturne

Aleks Krotoski explores the digital night.

• 29 mins

Series 21

Sacred

Aleks Krotoski explores the sacred

• 28 mins

Series 21

Monstrous

Aleks Krotoski asks what digitally native monster myths tell us about our fears of tech.

• 30 mins

Series 21

Stream

Aleks Krotoski explores content versus culture in the digital word.

• 28 mins

Series 22

Fated

Aleks Krotoski explores how toys might influence our technological futures.

• 28 mins

Series 22

Troll

Aleks Krotoski asks why only the malicious breed of troll seems to thrive online.

• 28 mins

Series 22

Treasure

Aleks Krotoski hunts for treasure in the digital world.

• 28 mins

Series 22

Novelty

Aleks Krotoski explores the importance of novelty and if the digital world can provide it.

• 29 mins

Series 22

Dreams

Aleks Krotoski discovers why people want to control their dreams.

• 28 mins

Series 22

Find

Aleks Krotoski on why the world for people who need to hide is becoming increasingly small

• 28 mins

Series 24

Tilt

Aleks Krotoski explores the age old human urge to cheat.

• 28 mins

Series 24

Servitude

Aleks Krotoski explores the relationships between content creators and their audience.

• 28 mins

Series 24

Encrypted

Aleks Krotoski explores what can happen when the good & bad guys have access to encryption

• 28 mins

Series 24

Unfocus

Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world.

• 28 mins

Series 24

Taint

Why are tech companies building a multi-billion dollar AI industry on discredited science?

• 28 mins

Series 24

Fleeting

Aleks Krotoski asks if how we use technology has affected our attitudes to ephemerality.

• 29 mins

Series 25

Banished

Where did those deplatformed after the Jan 6th riots go and what have they been doing?

• 29 mins

Series 25

Collapse

Aleks Krotoski explores what context collapse could mean in the metaverse.

• 29 mins

Series 25

Folk Wisdom

Aleks Krotoski asks how the online crowd can turn folk wisdom into misinformation.

• 29 mins

Series 25

Partisan

Aleks Krotoski discovers how Hacktivists operate in Europe's last dictatorship.

• 29 mins

Series 25

Anticipation

Aleks Krotoski asks why we're always yearning for new technological solution to problems?

• 29 mins

Series 25

Function

Aleks Krotoski explores who owns the function of the devices we use.

• 29 mins

Series 26

Virtue

Aleks discovers if the digital world is still one that can be a force for good?

• 29 mins

Series 26

Reflections

Aleks Krotoski asks if AI companions will be like imaginary friends of childhood.

• 29 mins

Series 26

Token

Aleks Krotoski finds out what happens when everything becomes a token.

• 29 mins

Series 26

Unintended

Aleks Krotoski asks if we've all become techno-fundamentalists.

• 28 mins

Series 26

Solitary

Aleks Krotoski explores what it means to be solitary in our digital world.

• 28 mins

Series 26

Flip

Aleks Krotoski explores how the internet strayed so far from its original purpose.

• 29 mins

Series 26

Power

Aleks discovers how the digital economy has reshaped class and the rights of workers.

• 29 mins

Series 26

Paradigm

Aleks Krotoski explores how we deal with technological paradigm shifts.

• 29 mins

Series 26

Disinhibition

Aleks Krotoski explores disinhibition in the digital world

• 27 mins

Series 26

Bona Fide

Aleks Krotoski asks, how you fabricate a believable life if everything is out in the open?

• 29 mins

Series 26

Implant

Aleks Krotoski asks how far we can trust digital technology implanted in our bodies.

• 28 mins

Series 26

Schadenfreude

Aleks Krotoski explores Schadenfreude in the digital world.

• 29 mins

Series 28

Generate

When AI art generators produce images in seconds, where can human imagination bloom?

• 29 mins

Series 28

Curate

When algorithms choose who can see what, what becomes of our relationship with the arts?

• 29 mins

Series 28

Unfinished

Aleks Krotoski explores whether the digital world results in more unfinished business.

• 28 mins

Series 28

Salvage

Aleks Krotoksi examines how we salvage value from legacy systems, structures and objects.

• 29 mins

Series 28

Retreat

Aleks Krotoski explores the value of retreat from the outside world, both on and offline.

• 28 mins

Series 28

Overturn

Aleks Krotoski explores what happens when, once freely given, data turns dangerous.

• 29 mins

Series 29

Dialogue

How can we avoid being silenced by AI moderation? Aleks explores the rise of Algospeak.

• 28 mins

Series 29

The Orbital Human

Aleks Krotoski looks up from the screen to the heavens and the tech orbiting the planet.

• 30 mins

Series 29

Disk

Aleks seeks out the last people selling, and experimenting with, floppy disks.

• 29 mins

Series 29

Reunited

Aleks Krotoski explores what it means to reunite in the digital world.

• 28 mins

Series 29

Utopia

Aleks discovers if high tech megaprojects will be utopian dreams, or crumbling follies.

• 28 mins

Series 29

Nope

Aleks Krotoski looks at the digital world and those quitting it and dropping out.

• 28 mins

Series 30

Synthetic

How can we get what we need from synthetic human companions?

• 29 mins

Series 30

Matchmaker

From AI to offline, Aleks Krotoski explores dating in the digital world

• 28 mins

Series 30

Subvert

Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world.

• 28 mins

Series 30

Cursed

Aleks Krotoski traces the origin of an iconic internet curse - Smile Dog.

• 28 mins

Series 30

Permanence

Aleks Krotoski explores the durability of existence in the digital world.

• 27 mins

Series 30

Reminiscence

Aleks explores how AI can aid in the care of people living with dementia.

• 29 mins

Update from the Digital Human Team

The Digital Human is pausing to focus on what everyone's talking about - AI

• 1 min