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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

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

Human sensors will feed the global mega machine

Intelligent systems will increasingly solicit our ‘help’ to gather data

The return of the incumbent?

A reflection on the demise of Big Tech and the return of industrial incumbents

Is AI still artificial?

Definitions are becoming obsolete as tech and science blur the boundaries between the natural and the artificial

Will generative AI favor the underdog?

The implications of generative AI for tech and talent

The future of crypto is coming: what will it look like?

Regulation, decentralization and combined approaches battle for the crypto throne

EU's digital strategy: where are we now and where do we go from here?

We should be strategic as we make strides toward digital sovereignty.

Is artificial intelligence smart enough to create a sustainable future?

Despite a hefty ecological footprint of its own, digital technology has the potential to contribute to a more sustainable future.

"Creative" AI is recreating the creative industry

In the past few months, creative AI systems such as DALL-E and Midjourney have taken the internet by storm with their “artistic” creations.