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All That We Touch

All That We Touch

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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 treasure. - NewGenics: The new frontier of embryo testing. What happens when the hope for a healthy child becomes the pressure to choose the best one? All That We Touch is hosted by historian Tamson Pietsch and Matt Ryan from the University of Technology Sydney, and made by the award-winning UTS Impact Studios.Copyright 2026 Impact Studios 社会科学 科学
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  • The God We Made: the threat and promise of artificial intelligence

    The God We Made: the threat and promise of artificial intelligence
    2026/10/07
    What would it take to keep hold of what makes us human, when the machines around us are doing so much of what only humans could once do?All That We Touch returns with a conversation recorded live at Gleebooks, where pianist, educator and writer Anna Goldsworthy joins Princeton scholar Sophie Gee discuss some of the ideas explored in Goldsworthy's new Quarterly Essay, The God We Made: the threat and promise of artificial intelligence.Goldsworthy and Gee talk through why friction and difficulty might be essential to human meaning rather than problems to engineer away, what it means that some people are forming relationships with AI companions built to please rather than push back, and what could really be at stake if the current trajectory carries us toward artificial general intelligence and beyond.The conversation ranges over the bias embedded in models trained on centuries of scraped human writing, the invisible labour and environmental cost the technology depends on, and the inequality it risks deepening both within societies and between them. An audience Q&A pushes further still, ranging from machine consciousness to the lessons of computer chess, and closing on a question that lingers well past the room: what can the humanities still offer a field being shaped mostly by engineers and capital?VoicesAnna Goldsworthy is a concert pianist, chamber musician and author of several books, including the novel Melting Moments, the memoirs Piano Lessons and Welcome to Your New Life, and the 2013 Quarterly Essay Unfinished Business. She is Dean of the Elder Conservatorium of Music at the University of Adelaide and incoming Artistic Director of the Australian National Academy of Music. Her most recent Quarterly Essay is The God We Made: the threat and promise of artificial intelligence.Sophie Gee is Professor of English at Princeton University and Vice Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Sydney. She is the author of scholarly monographs and an historical novel, co-host of the Secret Life of Books podcast, and her latest book, The Barbarous Feast: Eating and Writing in the Eighteenth-Century World, is published by Princeton University Press.CreditsThis episode of All That We Touch was recorded live on Gadigal Land, at Sydney's Gleebooks. For more literary events like this one, see the Gleebooks events page.The episode was edited and mixed by Daniel Wiggins.All That We Touch is a UTS Impact Studios podcast. Executive producer is Sarah Gilbert.
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    59 分
  • All That We Touch... at the pub

    All That We Touch... at the pub
    2026/09/24

    Welcome to the party!

    In this episode, recorded live at in Chippendale, at the Abercrombie Hotel, we officially launch All That We Touch.

    You'll hear two lively conversations.

    In the first, Monica Attard from UTS's Centre for Media Transition speaks with researcher Heather Ford and writer Richard Cooke about the ins and outs, the highs and lows, of having your own Wikipedia page.

    In the second, Stuart White, of UTS's Institute for Sustainable Futures, explores how recycling human urine for fertiliser might open up endless possibilities, not just for a larger circular economy in nutrients, but for rethinking our relationship to all kinds of "waste." Stuart is in conversation with researchers Kerry Tozer and Jordan Roods.

    Voices

    Professor Monica Attard OAM is co-director of the Centre for Media Transition at UTS, a cross disciplinary research centre investigating journalism best practice, regulatory adaptation, information disorder and news media business models. Monica is well known for her long career in journalism across radio, television and digital media.

    Associate Professor Heather Ford is an ARC Future Fellow and Professor in the School of Communication and Social Sciences at UTS. She is the author of Writing the Revolution: Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age (2022, MIT Press).

    Richard Cooke is an author, reporter and screenwriter. The author of three books, he is the former US correspondent and current contributing editor to the 'The Monthly' magazine. His latest book is The Last Best Place On The Internet: A Human History of Wikipedia (2026, Granta).

    Professor Stuart White directs the Institute for Sustainable Futures, where he leads a team of researchers who create change towards sustainable futures through independent, project-based research.

    Kerry Tozer is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS.

    Jordan Roods is a doctoral researcher, Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS.

    Credits

    This episode of All That We Touch was recorded live on Gadigal Land in Sydney by Simon Branthwaite, who also mixed and edited the episode.

    All That We Touch is an Impact Studios podcast. Its executive producer is Sarah Gilbert.
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    51 分
  • Liquid Gold bonus: All That We Touch goes to SXSW

    Liquid Gold bonus: All That We Touch goes to SXSW
    2026/09/09
    What would it actually take to build a functioning circular economy in nutrients, starting with recycling human urine?That's the question driving this bonus episode of Liquid Gold, recorded live at South by Southwest Sydney 2025. UTS researcher Dana Cordell chairs a panel that pushes past the novelty of "wee as fertiliser" into the harder territory: phosphorus scarcity, wastewater emissions, contamination risk, and who should be paying for pollution in the first place.The conversation moves from Django Seccombe explaining why Sydney Water spends up to two billion dollars a year dealing with nutrients it could be recovering instead, to organic garlic grower Dr Michelle Zeibots on the practical "yuck factor" of getting farmers to actually use urine-derived fertiliser, to policy expert Liana Downey on why consumers so often end up carrying the cost of decisions made further up the supply chain.VOICESKerry Tozer is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTSJordan Roods is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTSAssociate Professor Dana Cordell is a Research Director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures where she leads the Food Systems research group. Dana works with stakeholders across Australia, EU, UK, Sweden, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, India, China, Malawi and the U.S. to identify how food systems can transform and circularise in response to a range of sustainability challenges, from climate change to urban sprawl, to the global phosphorus challenge.Django Seccombe is an environmental engineer who splits his time between establishing and embedding circular economy practice in Sydney Water and developing cross industry circular economy projects in the private sector. His projects cut across water, energy, food and waste systems.Dr Michelle Zeibots is a garlic farmer and a researcher with UTS’ Institute for Sustainable Futures, specialising in the analysis of sustainable urban passenger transport systems.Liana Downey is an experienced strategic advisor who helps leaders change the world. As Executive Director of Liana Downey & Associates, Liana and her team work with nonprofits, governments and social enterprises globally to increase impact. She is the author of Mission Control: how non profits and governments can focus, achieve more and change the world (Routledge, 2016).Have your sayJordan and Kerry have put together a short anonymous survey to hear what listeners think about urine recycling – "peecycling"! – and the problems it could solve. The survey link is in the show notes on the episode page. Participants who share their contact details go into a draw to win one of three $50 AUD Visa gift cards. Please make sure you read the participant information sheet and complete the consent requirements before completing the survey or uploading any audio or video that could identify you.Try it for yourselfYou can purchase your own bottle of eco-friendly urine-derived fertiliser to sprinkle on your plants via this link: https://www.nicegreentech.com/productsFurther readingTurning food waste into tasteFrom flush to fertiliser, urine is liquid goldYou can find plenty of fact sheets and articles about the future of urine recycling and a circular nutrient economy at the NiCE Hub website.CreditsProducer: Celine Teo-BlockeySound Engineering: Melissa MayAdditional Music: Om BhandariCover Art: Alexandra MorrisExecutive Producer, Impact Studios: Sarah GilbertAll That We Touch is an Impact Studios production, made on Gadigal land in Warrane/Sydney.
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    56 分
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