Chapter 1: Knowing You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021)

About this episode

This episode explores how 21st-century technologies are reshaping personal identity.

These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity, social credit systems, avatar assistants, virtual reality, transhumanism, the digital afterlife and genomics - are reshaping the ...

People in this episode

Host: Tracey Follows

Topics covered

• identity
• technology
• digital identity
• transhumanism
• virtual reality
• social credit systems

Keywords

• identity
• technology
• artificial intelligence
• digital identity
• transhumanism
• virtual reality
• social credit systems

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Books & works: The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology?

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• Human Resilience in the AI Age · May 20, 2026 · 1h 1m
• Conclusion — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021) · April 30, 2026 · 13 min
• Chapter 7: Destroying You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021) · April 29, 2026 · 33 min
• Chapter 6: Enhancing You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021) · April 22, 2026 · 42 min
• Chapter 5: Replacing You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021) · April 16, 2026 · 35 min
• Chapter 4: Connecting You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021) · April 9, 2026 · 37 min