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

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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Episodes of Radical with Amol Rajan are released every Thursday
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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.