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Radical Essay: How Is Technology Changing Our Lives? (A 2025 Review)

Radical Essay: How Is Technology Changing Our Lives? (A 2025 Review)

Update: 2025-12-231
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From social media to artificial intelligence, one of themes of the first six months of Radical has been whether modern technology augments and improves what it is to be human or, on the contrary, degrades and damages our species.

In this final episode of 2025 Amol reflects on what he’s learned from the people he's spoken to on the podcast about how technology is changing our lives and brings you some of his personal highlights.

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Amol Rajan is a presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. He is also the host of University Challenge on BBC One. Before that, Amol was media editor at the BBC and editor at The Independent.

Radical with Amol Rajan is a Today Podcast. It was made by Lewis Vickers with Anna Budd. Technical production was by Mike Regaard. The editor is Sam Bonham. The executive producer is Owenna Griffiths.

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Radical Essay: How Is Technology Changing Our Lives? (A 2025 Review)

Radical Essay: How Is Technology Changing Our Lives? (A 2025 Review)

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