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Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world

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The Digital Human: Series 8: Episode 5: Body

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Episode 5: Body

Series 8

BBC Radio 4 - The Digital Human, Series 8, Body

Aleks Krotoski asks what the advent of digital technologies has meant for the human body.

Since ancient Greece, metaphors of current technology have been used understand the human body. Aleks Krotoski asks what this means in the digital era.

Since ancient Greece and probably before we've always used metaphors drawn from our current technology to understand our bodies. From the time of Newton we thought of the body as an elaborate clockwork device, the industrial revolution brought us the steam engine and the body became a system of pressures and levers. Aleks Krotoski asks what metaphor prevails in the digital era and what shortcomings in our understanding accompany these analogies.

Producer: Peter McManus.

The Digital Human: Series 8

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