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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

We are the products of technological mediation

What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI

The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)

When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent

The robots among us

About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots

The age of the machine: emancipation or alienation of the human?

Understanding the role of machines in society

The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse

About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals

Apple’s enduring quest for the disappearing computer

The next step into the era of spatial computing

Another piece on Barbenheimer

On the cultural significance of summer blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer

Health is the luxury to fall sick and recover

Towards an enriched concept of the normal and the pathological

Pills, pills, pills

Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises

The short-lived revival of Keynes; welcome back, Hayek!

Has neoliberalism really left? Or was “COVID-Keynesianism” nothing more than a short-term crisis management tactic?