Research

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

Filter: Technology

3

min

Don Ihde and generational responses to digital technology

3

min

Chinese philosopher Yuk Hui: "Technology has multiple futures"

8

min

Reflecting on responsibility in AI with Daniel Dennett

7

min

The codification of public policy

2

min

Fleeing from the public squares of the internet

2

min

The carbon capture era

8

min

Is EdTech addressing the demands of 21st century education?

2

min

The higher purpose of motor sports

2

min

Whistleblower platforms in the wake of Wikileaks’ demise

8

min

The emergence of the decentralized stack

Is the future open-source?

2

min

Is TikTok a vector for Chinese ideals?

7

min

To measure someone is to know someone

6

min

The social promise of augmented reality

7

min

Sustainable minerals for sustainable technology

2

min

Illegal streaming holds the media industry in check

6

min

The Africa Stack

The African continent might be leapfrogging into the digital economy

7

min

Can algorithms be neutral?

8

min

Where architecture and IT meet

2

min

21st century Luddites target self-driving cars

2

min

Scaling bitcoin with the lightning network

2

min

The VAR system and the datafication of everyday life

1

min

Facebook’s strategy for a decentralized future

Will Facebook orchestrate its own disruption?

8

min

Sports wearables: When the amateur goes pro

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

1

min

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.

2

min

Farming in the Anthropocene by improving photosynthesis

7

min

Managing your digital identity

9

min

Volatility in the Tech Stack

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

7

min

Retroscope 2018: Technological cycle

5

min

Open-source software is eating the world

Open-source software is crucial in our daily lives, and recent acquisitions of GitHub and Red Hat highlight its importance.

1

min

The protein folding revolution

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