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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

A new dawn for nationalist parties?

For many, the brutal geopolitical awakening caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China threatening to invade Taiwan means freedom is back on the political agenda...

Vibegeist: rave until the grave

The revival of rave and rage in the roaring twenties.

To cyberspace and beyond

How the cyborg movies of the ‘90s made us fantasize about mind uploading, sentient AI and immortality.

How will the metaverse and web3 influence social media?

Brace yourself, the 2D newsfeeds gracing our screens might soon be part of internet history.

The fragmentation of social media

When Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian are starting to revolt, you know Instagram is getting into trouble...

The early days of cyberpunk

As man becomes machine and machine becomes man.

From labor to exploitation: the dark side of blockchain games

What does it take to create a flourishing virtual economy?

Resurrecting the dead in the digital era

Will deepfake videos, the latest and most versatile medium to eternalize the dead, impel us to regulate digital immortality?

Politics should focus more on the Good Life

How can we reinstate the concept of the Good without downplaying the systemic risks threatening our global society?

An introduction to the Stack

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