Aleks Krotoski explores our lives in the digital world. This week she asks, are our ever more connected lives actually making us lonelier? Produced by Victoria McArthur and researched by Elizabeth Anne Duffy.
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The Digital Human: Isolation
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The Digital Human: Transgression
What is it about the digital world that encourages normal people to disregard the rules of everyday life? Is it the cloak of anonymity the net offers? The social rules of online communities? Or simply human nature? This week, Aleks Krotostki delves into the dark side of the digital world to explore whether or not the internet fuels the breakdown of social and moral boundaries. She speaks to a troll who claims Jesus and Socrates as her forebears, Dave Eshleman who was one of the guards in the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment and Professor Alex Haslam who recreated the experiment for the BBC, with startlingly different results.
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The Digital Human: Estrangement
Aleks Krotoski explores the difficulties of unpicking our lives from another, in both the physical and digital worlds. Produced by Peter McManus and Victoria McArthur. Researched by Elizabeth Anne Duffy.
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The Digital Human: Engagement
Aleks Krotoski explores when captivates and beguiles and asks if the digital world can measure up to the real one.
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The Digital Human: Last Word
Aleks Krotofski looks at death and how this fits into our always-on, forever searchable modern world.
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The Digital Human: Augment
In today’s programme have we all become cyborgs without even knowing it?
We’ve always extended our human bodies ever since we first picked up rocks or sticks as tools, it’s part of human nature. So are the digital tools of today any different? Aleks asks just how far we’ve come and are willing to go to become one with our technology and become cyborg.
Aleks hears from film maker Rob Spence better known as Eyeborg about the reaction he gets to the camera he has where his right eye used to be. It’s a different type of eye artist and composer Neil Harbisson uses, born entirely colour blind Neil uses an electronic eye on an antenna attached to his skull to hear colours it’s now such a part of how Neil perceives the world that he hears the colours in his dreams!
Brandy Ellis is a very different type of cyborg; having suffered from depression for years she opted to have electronics implanted in her brain to control her symptoms. Her feelings are literally regulated by a machine.
Ultimately Aleks finds out from anthropologist Amber Case how we’re all every bit as cyborg as Rob, Neil or Brandy in how we coexist symbiotically with our digital devices.
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The Digital Human: Tales
Aleks Krotoski looks at how story telling has changed in the digital age and whether it is has more in common with how we told tales in the past than we might think.
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The Digital Human: Intent
Aleks Krotoski ask do we really know what our technology is for and more intriguingly what it wants?
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The Digital Human: Memory
Alex Krotoski asks what the digital world tells us about ourselves. This week: Memory. How are digital devices changing our memories and our perception of intelligence?
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The Digital Human: Influence
Alex Krotoski explores what the digital world tells us about ourselves. This week Robert Scoble, author Darin Strauss and Rookie Magazine’s Tavi Gavinson explore Influence. How has the digital world changed the way opinions are voiced and shaped?
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