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Exporting surveillance

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Many silk connections

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Urban agriculture

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Will local-multiplayer survive in the video game industry?

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The sleeping Asian Tiger

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Germany’s growing realpolitik

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A new generation of American social democrats

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Mexico charts a new course

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Bullshit jobs in the digital age

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The bigger picture economy

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The “good” consumer

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Arbitrary decisions

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Europe's innovation horizon

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Early celebrations in Turkey

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Emerging markets have their moment to shine

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Galactic hegemony

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Eurasian momentum

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What can the U.S. learn from European schools?

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Meaningful entertainment in the digital age

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Migration concentration

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Shadow power in the global technological arms race

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Solar power nears terminal velocity

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Apple’s quest for the disappearing computer

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Deep transitions

Will we consider abandoning hyper productivity in favor of sustainability and equality?

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The shaky rise of digital gambling

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The selfish ledger

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Is Italy crossing the Rubicon?

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Dutch future welfare

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Schoolification

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Healthy infrastructure

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.