Life:Connected
How the wired world is shaping our lives. BBC Future unpicks how digital culture and technologies pervade everything we do.
If you do the ice bucket challenge, are you charitable or narcissistic? Modern altruism is all about performance, says Chris Baraniuk, but is that a bad thing? Read more...
Websites are using hidden tricks to make you click or buy without realising, and the way they do it can be both baffling and controversial, finds Chris Baraniuk Read more...
Controversial as it sounds, installing hi-tech microphones to listen in on family members could be a good thing in a few cases Read more...
Imagine your boss was a machine. For some people it’s almost a reality, says Jane Palmer, so will we all end up working for robots and algorithms? Read more...
Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools can boost our brains, according to author Clive Thompson. So how does it work? Read more...