Research

Explore our collection of articles on the leading megatrends in technology, politics, and society.

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Scaling bitcoin with the lightning network

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Facebook’s strategy for a decentralized future

Will Facebook orchestrate its own disruption?

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Netflix’s Bandersnatch: the beginning of embedded content interfaces

Netflix's interactive film 'Bandersnatch' could set the trend for embedded content interfaces in films and shows.

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Volatility in the Tech Stack

A closer look at the fundamental trajectories and interdependent nature of new technologies

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Open-source software is eating the world

Open-source software is crucial in our daily lives, and recent acquisitions of GitHub and Red Hat highlight its importance.

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From bits to atoms

Will platforms like Uber and Airbnb continue to succeed without physical assets?

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A return to utopian thinking

In the last decade, pragmatic utopian thinking has gained considerable popularity in different domains.

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Facebook’s flirt with crypto and blockchain

Will Big Tech companies like Facebook have a role in the crypto landscape?

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Technical hurdles towards the cryptoworld

Arief Hühn outlines possible solutions to the current limitations of the crypto world.

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Apple’s quest for the disappearing computer

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The selfish ledger

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When fake becomes the new normal

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The downside of radical tokenization

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Where does content generation stop and technology begin?

How the verticalization of entertainment platforms is shaping the media landscape

What is Russia's view on climate change?

Melting ice caps in the Arctic are incentivizing Russia’s exploitation and extraction of natural resources representing the last straw of the Anthropocene.

Russian digitalization through a Cosmist lens

To understand Russian politics, we need to understand Russian Cosmism, a philosophy that supports the digitalization of the Arctic.

Russia’s strategic exploitation of the Arctic

A long-standing resource-dependent economy, a melting Arctic, and technical capabilities have thrown the Arctic into the spotlight for Russia’s upcoming economic strategy.