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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

The internet is in need of a transition

What the internet can learn from ongoing transitions in energy, mobility and food

Is Open Source AI a sham?

Why leading AI companies are currently engaging in both 'openwashing' and 'closedwashing' practices

The artisan versus the engineer: masters of the universe

What kind of skills should we (not) cultivate for generative AI?

We are the products of technological mediation

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

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

Short-sighted AI regulations miss the big picture

How can we ensure that AI is not only safe but also resonates with our broader norms and values?

Philosophical prompt engineering in an AI-driven world

Why philosophical questioning and the art of posing the right questions becomes more important because of generative AI