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The not-so-bright future after the pandemic

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Digital advertising in a post-cookie world

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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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Harvest now, decrypt later

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Non-fungible tokens are all the rage

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The unique strength of Chinese business alliances

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Will a post-corona era arrive in the coming years?

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Crowdsourcing morality for autonomous systems

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Democratization of finance

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Biden’s America on the world stage

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Vaccine diplomacy

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Food security will have its moment on the world stage

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The sound and cost of silence

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Transatlantic troubles

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Our image of Chinese power

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The coronavirus is creating momentum for fiscal diet policy

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Carbon border tax

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Trump is making opposition media great (the platform becomes the bubble)

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The geopolitics of rare earth metals

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The not-so United States of America

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Who do we trust in the Stack war?

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The new power of technical standards

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Hollywood paves the way for diversity and representation

Will old mistakes continue to be made?

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The outdoor economy

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The long hegemony of currency

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Blurring boundaries with mixed reality toys

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After work thoughts

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My plant the therapist

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Food nationalism

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Global value chains are experiencing a formative moment

Breaking the bottleneck

Can state-led initiatives relying on market mechanisms help us achieve our decarbonization goals?

Beyond planetary boundaries: towards Earth systems justice

Linking new developments in Earth systems research to the Deep Transitions Framework

Has AI become indistinguishable from life itself?

Developments in AI lead to new speculations about the role of technologies in the evolution of life.

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

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

Human sensors will feed the global mega machine

Intelligent systems will increasingly solicit our ‘help’ to gather data

Are weapons still a sin stock?

Changes in narratives, economic structures and the nature of technology could be altering the status of defense stock.

The return of the incumbent?

A reflection on the demise of Big Tech and the return of industrial incumbents

Rediscovering the collective dimension of freedom

How the classic political philosophy of liberalism can broaden our individualistic interpretation of freedom.

The case for climate radicalism

The impacts of climate change are increasingly being felt all across the globe.