If the internet is where much of our common culture is stored these days, how do we make sure there's a record of our collective online lives? (This episode first aired in June 2021, and has been updated to reflect that.)

A look at the far future and nitty gritty present of artificial intelligence and what it might mean for how we relate to one another and the non-human entities that will —and increasingly do— surround us.

From cultural appropriation to algorithmic bias to the commodification of trauma, Black creators and consumers of digital media are forced to confront a variety of challenges on social media platforms. A look at the Black experience online.

A Spark look into the deep future. What will our homes look like, feel like, and where will they be located several decades from now?

How countercultures, subcultures and niche communities have shaped, and continue to shape, digital tech.

Our digital tech both facilitates and mitigates waste in the garment industry. But can the technology that ramped up global fashion production also help us build a more sustainable fashion future?

Sometimes it's all in the details. As a technology, glass lens—first developed around a thousand years ago—has allowed us to correct our vision, see the furthest objects in the sky, and the smallest objects on the Earth. Oh, and there's photography and film as well.

From the abacus to the explosive growth in computer tech following World War II, to today's research into using the brain as a model for computing.

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it! Everybody sleeps. But how has the way we sleep evolved with the technology we've developed?

From hieroglyphs to instant messaging, humans have been attempting to perfect the way we correspond with one another. And still, we love to hate to email.