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Africa is set to become world’s largest free trade area
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Illegal streaming holds the media industry in check
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21st century Luddites target self-driving cars
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Scaling bitcoin with the lightning network
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The future of Europe from an Asian perspective
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Particularly deadly matter
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The VAR system and the datafication of everyday life
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Facebook’s strategy for a decentralized future
Will Facebook orchestrate its own disruption?
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Slowing down fast fashion
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Inequality in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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Netflix’s Bandersnatch: the beginning of embedded content interfaces
Netflix's interactive film 'Bandersnatch' could set the trend for embedded content interfaces in films and shows.
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Farming in the Anthropocene by improving photosynthesis
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Retroscope 2018: Hegemonic cycle
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Retroscope 2018: Socio-cultural
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Retroscope 2018: Disruption in the making
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Peak social
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Open-source software is eating the world
Open-source software is crucial in our daily lives, and recent acquisitions of GitHub and Red Hat highlight its importance.
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The protein folding revolution
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Our polygenic scores tell us who we are
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Fighting terrorism has been a recurring issue in the history of Europe
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From bits to atoms
Will platforms like Uber and Airbnb continue to succeed without physical assets?
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Divided Brazil will be urged to look inwards
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A return to utopian thinking
In the last decade, pragmatic utopian thinking has gained considerable popularity in different domains.
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Google predicts a rising Chinese internet
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Facebook’s flirt with crypto and blockchain
Will Big Tech companies like Facebook have a role in the crypto landscape?
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Technical hurdles towards the cryptoworld
Arief Hühn outlines possible solutions to the current limitations of the crypto world.
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Apple’s quest for the disappearing computer
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Solar power nears terminal velocity
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Shadow power in the global technological arms race
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Migration concentration
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The ‘Wechselstimmung’ after Merkel
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The traffic light turns green for German digitalization
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China’s CBDC-as-a-standard?
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The future of the anti-establishment, conservative right
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Climate litigation and civil society
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What would a sufficiently sustainable ordinary life look like?
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A new narrative on climate change
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On the Chinese variety of capitalism
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How to deal with the medical uncertainty of Long COVID?
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India’s rise as a digital superpower
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