All That We Touch
Every piece of technology we use shapes how we think, what we believe, and who we become.
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…
Episodes
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?
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 world’s food, along with nitrogen and potassium.
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?
Research and teach with Wikipedia: In the classroom and library
Every student uses Wikipedia. Some schools and teachers still tell them not to.
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?
The ‘Last Best Place on the Internet’: Will Wikipedia survive AI?
In the future, will Wikipedia still be written by humans?
Wikipedia’s three big fights: What knowledge counts?
Wikipedia promised to be the sum of all human knowledge. Then the fighting started.
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.
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.
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?