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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
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The dilemma of future sports regulation
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Sports wearables: When the amateur goes pro
The widespread use of performance-tracking technologies has changed the practice of sports
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Big Tech and the healthcare system
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Are tech companies the next SIFI’s?
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The bright side of cybercrime
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