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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

When images matter more than reality

A reflection on Vilém Flusser's philosophy of photography in the age of social media

The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)

When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent

Knit’s Island and the future of the metaverse

An immersive and fascinating documentary about life in a virtual world

The robots among us

About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots

The age of the machine: emancipation or alienation of the human?

Understanding the role of machines in society

The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse

About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals

Degrowth will make us happier

Understanding wellbeing beyond economic growth

How collective behavior change can foster a sustainable future

A dive into the heart of the degrowth movement

What would it take for us to believe in aliens?

Believing the unbelievable in times of disinformation and deepfakes

Another piece on Barbenheimer

On the cultural significance of summer blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer