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

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The end of the pay-per-download era

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Reflecting on responsibility in AI with Daniel Dennett

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Chinese philosopher Yuk Hui: "Technology has multiple futures"

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Don Ihde and generational responses to digital technology

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Fleeing from the public squares of the internet

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The codification of public policy

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Is EdTech addressing the demands of 21st century education?

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The carbon capture era

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The emergence of the decentralized stack

Is the future open-source?

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Whistleblower platforms in the wake of Wikileaks’ demise

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The higher purpose of motor sports

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The social promise of augmented reality

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To measure someone is to know someone

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Is TikTok a vector for Chinese ideals?

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Sustainable minerals for sustainable technology

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Illegal streaming holds the media industry in check

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Can algorithms be neutral?

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The Africa Stack

The African continent might be leapfrogging into the digital economy

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Where architecture and IT meet

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Scaling bitcoin with the lightning network

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21st century Luddites target self-driving cars

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The VAR system and the datafication of everyday life

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Facebook’s strategy for a decentralized future

Will Facebook orchestrate its own disruption?

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Sports wearables: When the amateur goes pro

The widespread use of performance-tracking technologies has changed the practice of sports

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Netflix’s Bandersnatch: the beginning of embedded content interfaces

Netflix's interactive film 'Bandersnatch' could set the trend for embedded content interfaces in films and shows.

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Farming in the Anthropocene by improving photosynthesis

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Managing your digital identity

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Volatility in the Tech Stack

A closer look at the fundamental trajectories and interdependent nature of new technologies

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Retroscope 2018: Technological cycle

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