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Inequality in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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Retroscope 2018: Socio-cultural
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Peak social
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Open data empowerment
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Our polygenic scores tell us who we are
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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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Migration concentration
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A tale of two Indias
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The “good” consumer
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Human’s intangible stock of capital
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From body positivity to body neutrality
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The third urbanization wave
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Eastern European implosion
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The walls of the home are breaking down
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Sexual solipsism
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Equality, authenticity and excellence in education
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A new narrative for old age
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Debunking democracies
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Is Wikipedia the Red Cross of the Infocalypse?
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Safety or privacy?
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Imagining an African renaissance
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VR: a disruptive tool for changing behavior
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Beyond stereotypes of social class
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Generational amnesia
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Rethinking our human design
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New materialism
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The future of human competences
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Our technological relation to nature
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How autonomous vehicles will change our lives
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When images matter more than reality
A reflection on Vilém Flusser's philosophy of photography in the age of social media
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The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)
When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent
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Knit’s Island and the future of the metaverse
An immersive and fascinating documentary about life in a virtual world
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The robots among us
About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots
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The age of the machine: emancipation or alienation of the human?
Understanding the role of machines in society
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The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse
About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals
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Degrowth will make us happier
Understanding wellbeing beyond economic growth
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How collective behavior change can foster a sustainable future
A dive into the heart of the degrowth movement
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What would it take for us to believe in aliens?
Believing the unbelievable in times of disinformation and deepfakes
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Another piece on Barbenheimer
On the cultural significance of summer blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer
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