Every piece of technology we use is also using us. All That We Touch looks at familiar tools, systems, and habits and asks, how do they shape us? Hear deeply reported narrative series, interviews, and live recordings on the entangled relationships between technology, society, nature and politics, like: - Wikipedia: A six-part investigation about what shapes the world's biggest encyclopedia, and how to use it better. - Liquid Gold: What happens after we flush? Tracing human waste from taboo to treasure. - NewGenics: The new frontier of embryo testing. What happens when the hope for a healthy child becomes the...
Latest episodes
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59 min
The God We Made: the threat and promise of artificial intelligence
What would it take to keep hold of what makes us human, when the machines around us are doing so much of what only humans could once do?All That We Touch returns with a conversatio…
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51 min
All That We Touch... at the pub
Welcome to the party!In this episode, recorded live at in Chippendale, at the Abercrombie Hotel, we officially launch All That We Touch.You'll hear two lively conversations.In the…
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56 min
Liquid Gold bonus: All That We Touch goes to SXSW
What would it actually take to build a functioning circular economy in nutrients, starting with recycling human urine?That's the question driving this bonus episode of Liquid Gold,…
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38 min
Liquid Gold
Every time we flush, we send a valuable resource down the drain: phosphorus, one of the essential building blocks of life and a key ingredient in the fertiliser that grows the worl…
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1 h 52
Live panel: Wikimedia Australia and Dr Terri Janke's guide to working with First Nations content responsibly
How can Wikipedia editors work with Indigenous content in a responsible way?Hear a panel discussion with Indigenous lawyers Dr Terri Janke, Shavonne Wright, and Matilda Langford on…
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33 min
Research and teach with Wikipedia: In the classroom and library
Every student uses Wikipedia. Some schools and teachers still tell them not to.This episode asks why, and explains how to teach Wikipedia literacy to primary and secondary school s…
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13 min
Play along: The Wikipedia quiz
Five questions. Two hosts. One deceptively simple quiz. Can Wikipedia articles really be edited by anyone? Does the site rely on your $5 donations, or is there more to the story?Ho…
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30 min
The 'Last Best Place on the Internet': Will Wikipedia survive AI?
In the future, will Wikipedia still be written by humans?This episode asks what happens to that promise as two very different futures close in.Co-host and author Richard Cooke call…
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29 min
Wikipedia's three big fights: What knowledge counts?
Wikipedia promised to be the sum of all human knowledge. Then the fighting started.Host Heather Ford and writer Richard Cooke walk through three of Wikipedia's biggest fight. Not t…
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36 min
Australia and Wikipedia: The bias in the map
Wikipedia doesn't set out to play favourites. But when a made-up Melbourne suburb has more history than real Australian places, something is shaping what gets written.Who - or what…
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2 min
Introducing... All That We Touch: Wikipedia
It started as a joke. An encyclopedia anyone could edit? Now it’s one of the ten most visited websites in the world.Even when you think you're not using it, you probably are. It's…
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6 min
Introducing... All That We Touch: Investigating the relationship between technology and society
Are we really separate from the things we make? Do we really control our own tools? And where do we end, and they begin?All That We Touch explores the relationship between technolo…