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Open data empowerment

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From bits to atoms

Will platforms like Uber and Airbnb continue to succeed without physical assets?

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The age of genetic information

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Google predicts a rising Chinese internet

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Facebook’s flirt with crypto and blockchain

Will Big Tech companies like Facebook have a role in the crypto landscape?

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Technical hurdles towards the cryptoworld

Arief Hühn outlines possible solutions to the current limitations of the crypto world.

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Apple’s quest for the disappearing computer

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The CRISPR’d era

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Fewer staff, more data

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Shadow power in the global technological arms race

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Narrative of Big Tech

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One grid to rule them all

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China’s challenges towards semiconductor autonomy

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Galactic hegemony

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Europe's innovation horizon

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Arbitrary decisions

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The bigger picture economy

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Bullshit jobs in the digital age

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Technological momentum

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The intelligence of AI

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Will local-multiplayer survive in the video game industry?

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Exporting surveillance

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Rise of online education in the corporate education sector

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The selfish ledger

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The shaky rise of digital gambling

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Who owns the data of the city?

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Can E-learning bridge Africa’s education gap?

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The medium is (liable for) the message

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The walls of the home are breaking down

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