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Is a new technological revolution in the making?

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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

De-influencers or re-influencers?

Criticism of consumer society is of all ages, but now it’s coming from an unexpected corner.

Sticky dependence: Europe’s reliance on Russia

Although Europe wants to decouple from Russia, our countries’ dependence is stickier and more complex than we might have estimated

Is AI still artificial?

Definitions are becoming obsolete as tech and science blur the boundaries between the natural and the artificial

Will generative AI favor the underdog?

The implications of generative AI for tech and talent

China’s not-so-responsive authoritarianism

What the Zero-Covid strategy reveals about Chinese power dynamics

The future of crypto is coming: what will it look like?

Regulation, decentralization and combined approaches battle for the crypto throne

Can art and imagination spur climate action?

Exploring other ways to increase our moral judgement on climate change

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?

Is artificial intelligence smart enough to create a sustainable future?

Despite a hefty ecological footprint of its own, digital technology has the potential to contribute to a more sustainable future.

Hungary’s continued development toward autocracy prompts challenges for the EU

How will having an “electoral autocracy” in their midst affect the EU's solidarity during crises and its normative power abroad?