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

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K-12 online tutoring

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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Mobility as a Service

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Taking games to the cloud

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Building memory in the information age

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The API Economy

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The future of public transport

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Is the next wave of influencers digital?

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eHealth as a driver of change in digitalization processes

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Different cultures, same demand for future skills

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A new narrative for old age

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Spoiler culture

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China’s social credit system is taking shape

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Let’s get digital

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Is Wikipedia the Red Cross of the Infocalypse?

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The rise of digital conglomerates

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Big Tech and the healthcare system

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The future of social media

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VR: a disruptive tool for changing behavior

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Three degrees of radical innovation

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When fake becomes the new normal

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Are tech companies the next SIFI’s?

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The decline of face value

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Is a new technological revolution in the making?

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Digitizing food

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Rethinking our human design

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The view from above

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Speculation as a way to design the future

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