Ruined By The Internet? | Uncovering the human cost of our digital world

Gareth King

Is the internet really ruining everything, or are we just looking at it wrong? Ruined By The Internet? uses technology as a lens to investigate its effects on society, culture, and modern life. Not products. Not industry news. The human costs of the digital world we all inhabit - whether we wanted them or not. Through conversations with psychologists, musicians, political scientists, FBI investigators, anthropologists, economists, researchers, and experts from every field technology has touched, each episode takes a social or cultural focal point and examines it from every angle. How is social media changing us? Is AI reshaping human...

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Ruined By The Internet? | Uncovering the human cost of our digital world

Episodes (32)

Sun Jul 5th Digital Humanity: From Real Minds to Synthetic Hallucination? | AI, LLMs, Identity, Consciousness & Authenticity
Jun 20th Conspiracy Theories: Weaponised From the Fringe to Your Feed? | Misinformation, Radicalisation & the Attention Economy
Jun 2nd Job Security: Optimised for Our Own Obsolescence? | AI, Automation, Future of Work & Job Displacement

Ruined By The Internet? | Uncovering the human cost of our digital world

Jul 5, 2026
35¼ minutes
28 MB

The internet promised to be a vast global network of human thought and connection. But as the digital ecosystem is increasingly choked by synthetic content and non-human users, is the internet’s true premium – the certainty of human thought – being destroyed? Welcome to Ruined By The Internet? – the show where we examine how technology is shaping modern life – whether we want it to or not. Follow or subscribe to never miss the next investigation. https://www.ruinedbytheinternet.com/ We’re joined by David Schmudde, Chief Technology Officer at Yorba, where he specialises in how our iden...

Ruined By The Internet? | Uncovering the human cost of our digital world

Digital Humanity: From Real Minds to Synthetic Hallucination? | AI, LLMs, Identity, Consciousness & Authenticity

Gareth King

00:00 -35:11