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

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E-sports on steroids

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The future of globalization

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Making sense of automation tax

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Limits to facial recognition

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The virtual of virtual reality

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Smart home care for our second adulthood

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Health concerns surrounding 5G

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Indian innovation

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The elemental evolution of media

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Every bit has a price

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Could we live without a job?

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Computers need a language for causal reasoning

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Will hiding the like button help Facebook?

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Visual search tools are building a bridge

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How digital technology will change our relationship to nature

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Reinventing urban waterways

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The revival of the Rhine Model for digital capitalism

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China’s digital platforms as a regional standard

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Building bridges to the crypto space

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Online language is better language

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The European Stack is taking shape

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Apple’s silent transition into the next computing paradigm

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The quest for autonomy in the digital age

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The internet of thoughts

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Reality is holding back self-driving cars

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Precautionary screening for the masses?

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Our cities as AR gaming arenas

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Will China become a sustainability leader?

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Libra’s next hurdle: financial regulators and governments

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Breaking down data & AI silos

The Battle of Stacks (part 2)

A deep dive into the battle’s origins and the titans who shape it

The Battle of Stacks (part 1)

How digital superpowers redefine the political order

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