Research

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

Filter: Sebastiaan Crul

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A beginner's guide to the metaverse

Both praised and feared by many, the 'promises' of the metaverse are highly contentious. Sebastiaan Crul aims to separate the wheat from the chaff.

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Dominating the first TikTok war

How the selfie-president and TikTok videos are helping Ukraine dominate social media

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How the cyborg deconstructed the modern worldview

The evolution of the cyborg in science and popular culture

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Will the metaverse be a “pornoverse”?

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The ‘Wechselstimmung’ after Merkel

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Climate litigation and civil society

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How to deal with the medical uncertainty of Long COVID?

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Winter is ending

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We need more downward mobility

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Lifestyle politics in the planetary age

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The European deep transition strategy

The EU is leveraging the “Brussels Effect” to establish the metarules of the Second Deep Transition.

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Democratization of finance

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Does the future belong to Keynes and Mazzucato?

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Biden: neither friend nor foe to big tech

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The sterile human and the biomedical disease model

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The resistance to the hegemony of the App Store

As emerging tech companies become more influential their relationships with big tech are increasingly strained

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Wicked dilemmas and political decision-making

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The (un)changing doctor-patient relationship

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Game engines are revolutionizing filmmaking

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When we really become hybrid beings

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Interactive elements in movies and series

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Everybody is a self-tracker

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Central banks rethink their purpose

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Smart home care for our second adulthood

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Will hiding the like button help Facebook?

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Visual search tools are building a bridge

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The dominance of movie franchises

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The ambiguity of self-tracking for health

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Libra’s next hurdle: financial regulators and governments

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The end of the pay-per-download era

The quitters of open societies

What happens when we no longer play a common game

Perspectives on the post-truth era

The 'enshittification' of society

FreedomLab commemorates its 500th article with a retrospective of its publication history

Forget about the (human) parents

Meet the cyborgs

The enhanced human: stronger, better, happier

Why we might all become centaurs according to transhumanists

The deficient animal: artificial by nature

And why the idea of helpful AI agents might be a misleading, anthropocentric notion

We need to think about the constitution of the EU (part I)

And Luuk van Middelaar’s study of European discourses helps us structure the debate

We need to think about the constitution of the EU (part II)

And Luuk van Middelaar’s study of European spheres helps us structure the debate

Is Open Source AI a sham?

Why leading AI companies are currently engaging in both 'openwashing' and 'closedwashing' practices

The artisan versus the engineer: masters of the universe

What kind of skills should we (not) cultivate for generative AI?