Research

Explore our collection of articles on the leading megatrends in technology, politics, and society.

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Our post-corona relationship to nature

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Wicked dilemmas and political decision-making

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Inequality kills

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Scenario thinking: embracing uncertainty

Will we soon let go of traditional forecasting in favor of multi-dimensional scenario thinking?

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The (un)changing doctor-patient relationship

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Retroscope 2019: Socio-cultural

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Horror in times of uncertainty

Horror movies allow us to safely explore extreme scenarios... what do they tell us about our current fears?

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Limits to facial recognition

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Smart home care for our second adulthood

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Revolutionaries between UFOs and raids

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Will hiding the like button help Facebook?

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Could we live without a job?

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What is the impact of mindfulness on society?

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Generation Alpha

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Zeroing in on 0.0% beers

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Worker rights, a new frontier for reducing U.S. inequality?

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Gen Z in the generational cycle

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High hopes for holiness

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Demographics and hegemony

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Who are the African youth?

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The elastic generation

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Hegel and the unfolding idea of freedom in the 21st century

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The codification of public policy

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Fleeing from the public squares of the internet

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Whistleblower platforms in the wake of Wikileaks’ demise

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Sustainable by default

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The dilemma of future sports regulation

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To measure someone is to know someone

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The social promise of augmented reality

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The evolving landscape of consumer trust

The quitters of open societies

What happens when we no longer play a common game

Perspectives on the post-truth era

The 'enshittification' of society

Forget about the (human) parents

Meet the cyborgs

The enhanced human: stronger, better, happier

Why we might all become centaurs according to transhumanists

The deficient animal: artificial by nature

And why the idea of helpful AI agents might be a misleading, anthropocentric notion

Genuine writing in the digital age

An inconvenient effort worth pursuing

Magic in metamodern times

To be(lieve) or not to be(lieve), that is the question

Why we should embrace the void

The psychoanalysis of 'Love, Death & Robots'

Post-growth: the dawn of a new era

What will the upcoming paradigm shift entail?

We are the products of technological mediation

What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI