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

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The virtual of virtual reality

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Limits to facial recognition

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Making sense of automation tax

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Indian innovation

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Health concerns surrounding 5G

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Smart home care for our second adulthood

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Every bit has a price

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The elemental evolution of media

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Will hiding the like button help Facebook?

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Computers need a language for causal reasoning

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Could we live without a job?

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Reinventing urban waterways

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How digital technology will change our relationship to nature

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Visual search tools are building a bridge

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China’s digital platforms as a regional standard

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The revival of the Rhine Model for digital capitalism

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Building bridges to the crypto space

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Online language is better language

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Apple’s silent transition into the next computing paradigm

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The European Stack is taking shape

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The quest for autonomy in the digital age

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Reality is holding back self-driving cars

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The internet of thoughts

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Precautionary screening for the masses?

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Will China become a sustainability leader?

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Our cities as AR gaming arenas

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Libra’s next hurdle: financial regulators and governments

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Breaking down data & AI silos

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The end of the pay-per-download era

The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse

About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals

Apple’s enduring quest for the disappearing computer

The next step into the era of spatial computing

The Indian Stack goes global

Is a decentralized, open-source Indian-European Stack emerging?

Will generative AI bring the productivity increases we need?

Information technology and the lack of corresponding increases in productivity

The future of inflation and interest rates

A long-term view on the drivers of inflation and monetary policy

Has AI become indistinguishable from life itself?

Developments in AI lead to new speculations about the role of technologies in the evolution of life.

Romantic robots: a new love paradigm

Will our society's progressive values lead us to embrace a new romantic paradigm?

ChatGPT and the place of the human being in an automated society

An unconventional reflection on Hannah Arendt’s philosophy

Learning to waste

All manufacturing produces waste, even the clean energy industry. Critical clean energy technologies – EV batteries, solar panels, wind turbine blades – lead to a massive problem with waste management

Pills, pills, pills

Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises