The monsters we create have always given us insight into what we're scared of in the world around us. Aleks Krotoski asks what those born of tech tell us about our fears today. Show more

Aleks Krotoski explores a story which sought to be forgotten, but wasn't. Show more

Aleks explores how AI can be used to better the lives of people with dementia, and help the people caring for them cope with the cognitive decline of someone they dearly love. Show more

Living in a digital world. Aleks Krotoski explores our age-old obsession with predicting the future and asks if big data might provide humanity with a true oracle. Show more

Searching for treasure, it’s what drives us although we might nor be looking for literal gold. Offline and on what does it look like and how do we find it? And is it ever cursed? Show more

In the past couple of years, text-to-art AI art generators have taken the world by storm. But when AI can produce perfect images in seconds, where can human imagination bloom? Show more

Blackbox algorithms rule the online world. They choose who can see which content, never explaining why. What does this mean for artists, audiences and culture as a whole? Show more

Aleks Krotoski explores whether the digital world results in us having more unfinished business and whether this is always a bad thing. Show more

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

When the world feels as overwhelming as it has in recent years, it can be hard to fully disengage. Aleks Krotoski discovers the value of retreat, both on and offline. Show more

Aleks Krotoski talks to the children of those lost to QAnon conspriacies. Like a twisted Pied Piper story an older generation have been led away leaving their children bereft. Show more

Aleks Krotoski explores what happens when a social or political change makes data, once freely given, dangerous and if it is possible to keep a secret in a world of data brokers. Show more

What is the biggest threat to our privacy: governments, corporate entities or our friends? And do people have different attitudes towards privacy depending on their culture?

Aleks Krotoski explores what it means to be solitary in our digital world and whether we should be more nuanced in our approach to the complex human emotion of loneliness. Show more

We seem to be living in an age of anger and nowhere is that more apparent than certain parts of the internet. Aleks Krotoski explores if digital media is a symptom or the cause. Show more

There is an old joke that talking to yourself is first sign of madness but we now know its an essential mental tool . So how much of what we do online is that same inner speech?

Aleks Krotoski finds out about an online community who believe in a film that doesn't exist and contemplates base reality with cognitive neuroscientist Donald Hoffman. Show more

Aleks Krotoski explores living in a digital world. Why in a digital world can silence make us feel uncomfortable and how can technology actually help us achieve silence? Show more

We are feeling the disruptive force of Covid-19 and its fallout. But will we want to hold onto BC, Before Coronavirus to make our world AD, After the Disease, what it once was? Show more

Aleks Krotoski discovers how to live symbiotically with our technology, and how such a relationship may change what it means to be human. Show more