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

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The emergence of big tech mesh networks

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Digital advertising in a post-cookie world

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Non-fungible tokens are all the rage

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Harvest now, decrypt later

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The unique strength of Chinese business alliances

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Democratization of finance

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Crowdsourcing morality for autonomous systems

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The Retroscope 2020

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The 'Brussels effect' on digital legislation

Europe is reinventing its digital Stack by taking the lead in legislation implementation

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Disinformation and the false believe we are autonomous in our search for knowledge

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Biden: neither friend nor foe to big tech

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The geopolitics of rare earth metals

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The sharing economy is dead, long live the rental economy

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Are we sharing enough data?

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Who do we trust in the Stack war?

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The new power of technical standards

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Blurring boundaries with mixed reality toys

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The resistance to the hegemony of the App Store

As emerging tech companies become more influential their relationships with big tech are increasingly strained

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Today’s class of uncontrollable technology

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Could Europe fix the internet?

Europe aims to restore competitiveness and sovereignty in the digital realm through policies on data-sharing, AI, and open internet.

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In the back end of our cities

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Game engines are revolutionizing filmmaking

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Retroscope 2019: Technological cycle

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When we really become hybrid beings

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Interactive elements in movies and series

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Everybody is a self-tracker

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E-sports on steroids

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The age of digital mega-ecosystems

Digital ecosystems have the potential to address consumer needs, but obstacles still exist in their implementation.

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The future of globalization

Digital facts and objectivity in the 'TrustTech Stack' and network ontology

How can the Stack and Bruno Latour's network ontology help to give a more positive conception of the construction of digital facts and objectivity?

Perspectives on the post-truth era

The 'enshittification' of society

FreedomLab commemorates its 500th article with a retrospective of its publication history

The narratives struggling to define the impact of AI on the labor market

High expectations, disillusionment, and realism—the usual players in AI predictions are all present

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

The AI chips race (part II)

Chips are at the heart of the generative AI Stack

The AI chips race (part I)

How AI chips will determine future geopolitical events