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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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From body positivity to body neutrality
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Human’s intangible stock of capital
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The “good” consumer
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A tale of two Indias
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Migration concentration
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The third urbanization wave
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Sexual solipsism
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The walls of the home are breaking down
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Eastern European implosion
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Debunking democracies
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A new narrative for old age
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Equality, authenticity and excellence in education
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Is Wikipedia the Red Cross of the Infocalypse?
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Safety or privacy?
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Beyond stereotypes of social class
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VR: a disruptive tool for changing behavior
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Imagining an African renaissance
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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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Will generative AI bring the productivity increases we need?
Information technology and the lack of corresponding increases in productivity
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Are we heading towards post-human intelligence?
Rethinking being human in a more-than-human world
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Beyond planetary boundaries: towards Earth systems justice
Linking new developments in Earth systems research to the Deep Transitions Framework
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FreedomLab Selects: Rinus van de Velde — The Armchair Voyager
Vivian Elion analyses the surrealistic exhibition of Rinus van de Velde through the lens of metamodernism.
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Romantic robots: a new love paradigm
Will our society's progressive values lead us to embrace a new romantic paradigm?
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Health is the luxury to fall sick and recover
Towards an enriched concept of the normal and the pathological
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ChatGPT and the place of the human being in an automated society
An unconventional reflection on Hannah Arendt’s philosophy
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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
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Pills, pills, pills
Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises
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Rediscovering the collective dimension of freedom
How the classic political philosophy of liberalism can broaden our individualistic interpretation of freedom.
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