How algorithms changed the way we communicate (w/ Adam Aleksic

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  This is How to Be a Better Human.

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  I am your host, Chris Duffy,

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  and today on the show, we are talking about how the internet,

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  and more specifically, social media, has changed the way that we think, speak,

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  and relate to one another.

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  But we are specifically going to be looking at this through the lens of language.

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  Our guest, Adam Aleksic, is the author of Algo Speak,

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  How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language.

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  You may know Adam as Etymology Nerd Online,

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  and Adam spends a lot of time thinking about how words shift and evolve.

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  To me, this is very much not just an intellectual exercise.

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  It's interesting intellectually, but it's so much more than that.

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  This is about how we communicate with each other.

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  How do we tell other people what we're thinking and feeling and experiencing?

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  At its heart, this is about how language shapes our reality.

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  Here's an example that Adam gives in his 2024 talk at TEDxPen.

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  It's about why several years ago, conversations about topics like death, mortality,

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  and suicide with young people seem to all suddenly involve a strange new word, unalive.

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  Adam surveyed over a thousand middle school teachers,

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  and he heard that they were hearing the word unalive in their lunchrooms,

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