Research

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?

The 'enshittification' of society

FreedomLab commemorates its 500th article with a retrospective of its publication history

High expectations, disillusionment, and realism—the usual players in AI predictions are all present

Meet the cyborgs

Why we might all become centaurs according to transhumanists

And why the idea of helpful AI agents might be a misleading, anthropocentric notion

An inconvenient effort worth pursuing

Chips are at the heart of the generative AI Stack

How AI chips will determine future geopolitical events

What the internet can learn from ongoing transitions in energy, mobility and food

Why leading AI companies are currently engaging in both 'openwashing' and 'closedwashing' practices

What kind of skills should we (not) cultivate for generative AI?

What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI

When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent

An immersive and fascinating documentary about life in a virtual world

About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots

Understanding the role of machines in society

How can we ensure that AI is not only safe but also resonates with our broader norms and values?

Why philosophical questioning and the art of posing the right questions becomes more important because of generative AI

About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals

The next step into the era of spatial computing

Is a decentralized, open-source Indian-European Stack emerging?

Information technology and the lack of corresponding increases in productivity

A long-term view on the drivers of inflation and monetary policy

Developments in AI lead to new speculations about the role of technologies in the evolution of life.

Will our society's progressive values lead us to embrace a new romantic paradigm?

An unconventional reflection on Hannah Arendt’s philosophy

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

Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises