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Richard King: Author, critic and lecturer.

Episode 178 of the Towards Understanding podcast, hosted by Positive Media, titled "Richard King: Author, critic and lecturer." was published on September 30, 2025 and runs 18 minutes.

September 30, 2025 ·18m · Towards Understanding

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Clayton chatted with author, critic and lecturer, Richard King, who talked about his newest book, 'Here Be Monsters: Is Technology Reducing Our Humanity?'. He spoke deeply about the fact that we are in the midst of a technological revolution and is this, therefore, changing what it means to be human? Richard challenged us, as modern societies, that we need to develop a more critical attitude to new and emerging technologies. We need, he suggests, to rethink our relationship to our tools from both individual and societal perspectives. It is not enough to let the market decide which technologies are good for us. We need to ask what we want from technology. And the question of what we want is a question about who we are.

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