This is Your Life on Tech

In a time of technological manipulation, tech dominance, even tech fascism — do we have any cause to hope? I think so. And in March 2025, I explained why, at the Berlin Salon: part of the Polyopportunity, a yearlong initiative of The House of Beautiful Business , the Acosta Institute , and The Holon Institute . This podcast contains a re-recording of the talk I gave at that event. www.elainekasket...

Why do digital remains – the data left behind when we die -- matter to everyone on the planet...not just two thirds of the world connected to the Internet? Why is it true that we live inside the Internet, or inside of an archive? What are our responsibilities to the digitally preserved dead and to history, and how do our current ways of dealing with the dead connect us to ancient history? What hap...

When we combine the existence of ‘digital remains’ with current and emerging technologies, we arrive at some pretty weighty and interesting questions about what it is to be human, and what it is to really relate. In getting to grips with these topics, I can’t think of a much better conversation partner than Mórna O’Connor. Dr Mórna O’Connor is currently involved in a four-country research consorti...

What’s a ghostbot? Have you ever encountered a digital zombie, and could you become one? Should there be a legally binding ‘do not bot me’ clause in your will? How about a digital do not reanimate me (DDNR) order? When we mix the popularisation and accessibility of large language model (LLM) AI with ‘digital remains’, what happens? Are we entering an era of dead labour, when the knowledge and the...

Is technology a third wheel in your relationship? How does it come into the interactions between you? Does it help, or does it get in the way? This week, speaker and author Elaine Kasket is in conversation with Kara Fletcher about technology-related issues in couples relationships and the connection between tech use and attachment styles. Attachment styles are patterns of relating and responding i...

In the fifth of 10 special podcasts corresponding to the chapters in Reboot: Reclaiming Your Life in a Tech-Obsessed World , author and psychologist Elaine Kasket asks whether there's the science to back up fears about teens and screens. She speaks with Karen Mansfield, expert on teens and tech, a postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute. This is a public episode. If you would like...

Here's the fourth of ten special podcasts corresponding to the chapters in Reboot: Reclaiming Your Life in a Tech-Obsessed World . Author and psychologist Elaine Kasket will be looking at the world of behavioural tracking, social scoring, and educational technology in schools, with the help of a primary head teacher, privacy lawyer Al Gidardi, tech journalist Amelia Tait, and educator/writer/journ...

here’s the third of ten special podcasts corresponding to the chapters in Reboot: Reclaiming Your Life in a Tech-Obsessed World . In chapter 3, I came face to face with a befuddling issue: how’s a writer to address the issues like young children’s privacy and parental ‘sharenting’ without coming over all judgemental?! In this episode, I (that’s author and psychologist Elaine Kasket ) try to work t...

This week, the second of ten special podcasts corresponding to the chapters in Reboot: Reclaiming Your Life in a Tech-Obsessed World . In this episode, author and psychologist Elaine Kasket talks with author and mum of two Stephanie V. about parental anxiety, high-tech monitoring and the digital divide of infancy; with Oxford Internet Institute director Professor Victoria Nash about what's drawing...

This week, the first of ten special podcasts that correspond to the chapters in Reboot: Reclaiming Your Life in a Tech-Obsessed World. Author and psychologist Elaine Kasket talks gender reveals and sonogram sharing with Jenna Karvunidis, the regretful inventor of the gender-reveal-party phenomenon; Professor Tama Leaver, Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University in Perth; and ‘Martell’ an...

You're in a relationship with technology...and you've got boundary issues. Elaine Kasket talks about psychologist Erik Erikson and her reboot of his famous psychosocial life stages. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lifeontech.substack.com

This week, author and psychologist Elaine Kasket previews her upcoming book, This is Your Life on Tech , and thinks about how the negativity bias skews our perceptions online and off - which is why gratitude practices can be so helpful. This is Your Life on Tech is a reader-supported publication. Annual paid subscribers receive free copies of All the Ghosts in the Machine, This is Your Life on Tec...

When you really need to be productive, does it feel like technology is working for you or against you? This week, author and psychologist Elaine Kasket shares three ways she uses technology when she's up against a deadline. This is Your Life on Tech is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Annual paid subscribers rece...

This week, psychologist and author Elaine Kasket delves into why you should be taking more walks in nature - and why you should be leaving your phone at home when you do it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lifeontech.substack.com

In The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People , Stephen Covey spoke of the circles of control, influence and concern. In this podcast, psychologist and author Elaine Kasket explains how you can use Covey's simple model to shape your moods, thoughts and behaviour from the moment you wake up. Elaine is the author of All the Ghosts in the Machine and the upcoming (2023) This is Your Life on Tech. Th...

What do words and phrases like virtual, in real life, face to face, cyberspace mean to you? Your answer may say a lot about how you’re feeling as you navigate the world these days - to your quality of life. Here's some links to folks mentioned in this week's This is Your Life on Tech: Luciano Floridi et al.'s Onlife Manifesto . Patrick Stokes, Digital Souls William Gibson, Neuromancer Elaine Kaske...

Expert in psychology and technology Elaine Kasket explains what 'intimate surveillance' means and gets you to consider...if you're hacking or snooping into your partner's accounts or devices to assuage your anxieties about the relationship, how's that really working out for you? You can subscribe to the full text of this podcast over on Substack . Elaine is the author of All the Ghosts in the Mach...

Expert in psychology and technology Elaine Kasket explains why setting goals, rules, and limits about our technology use might not be the most effective way forward. What can you do to make your tech use better for you? Some values exercises connected to today's show: There are many tools for values clarification. If you want to do it using tech, try an app like Values Discovery on the Google Play...

Coming 23rd January 2023! The This is Your Life on Tech mini-podcast, from psychologist, coach and author Elaine Kasket, is chock-full of ready-to-use tools, techniques, and reflections to ground you in an electric world. Ten minutes every Monday to help you live a more intentional life in the week ahead. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acc...