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Is a new technological revolution in the making?
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Living maps
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Digitizing food
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Rethinking our human design
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The view from above
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Speculation as a way to design the future
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Your diploma is OK, what are your skills?
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The bright side of cybercrime
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New materialism
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Europe’s resurging South
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We are running out of sand
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Asia’s next growth engines
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Data has a will of its own
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The future of human competences
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Unlocking the mind
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Breathing is the new smoking
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Our technological relation to nature
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The downside of radical tokenization
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Speculating through CES
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How autonomous vehicles will change our lives
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Who will be the 21st-century Henry Ford?
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The delivery economy
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China’s new green normal
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Where does content generation stop and technology begin?
How the verticalization of entertainment platforms is shaping the media landscape
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Shifts in the global food system
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Breaking the bottleneck
Can state-led initiatives relying on market mechanisms help us achieve our decarbonization goals?
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Beyond planetary boundaries: towards Earth systems justice
Linking new developments in Earth systems research to the Deep Transitions Framework
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Has AI become indistinguishable from life itself?
Developments in AI lead to new speculations about the role of technologies in the evolution of life.
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Urban greening should focus on equity, not nature
The external valuation of nature in city planning could withhold green areas from becoming accessible to all
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Learning to waste
All manufacturing produces waste, even the clean energy industry. Critical clean energy technologies – EV batteries, solar panels, wind turbine blades – lead to a massive problem with waste management
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Are weapons still a sin stock?
Changes in narratives, economic structures and the nature of technology could be altering the status of defense stock.
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Human sensors will feed the global mega machine
Intelligent systems will increasingly solicit our ‘help’ to gather data
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The return of the incumbent?
A reflection on the demise of Big Tech and the return of industrial incumbents
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The case for climate radicalism
The impacts of climate change are increasingly being felt all across the globe.
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Rediscovering the collective dimension of freedom
How the classic political philosophy of liberalism can broaden our individualistic interpretation of freedom.
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