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A multipolar military world
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Solar power nears terminal velocity
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Fewer staff, more data
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Shadow power in the global technological arms race
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Migration concentration
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Narrative of Big Tech
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Meaningful entertainment in the digital age
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What can the U.S. learn from European schools?
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One grid to rule them all
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Eurasian momentum
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China’s challenges towards semiconductor autonomy
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Galactic hegemony
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Emerging markets have their moment to shine
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Early celebrations in Turkey
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Personalized competence-based learning
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A tale of two Indias
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Europe's innovation horizon
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Arbitrary decisions
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The “good” consumer
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China’s financial reform
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The bigger picture economy
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Bullshit jobs in the digital age
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Mexico charts a new course
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A new generation of American social democrats
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Technological momentum
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Germany’s growing realpolitik
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The intelligence of AI
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The sleeping Asian Tiger
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Will local-multiplayer survive in the video game industry?
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Human’s intangible stock of capital
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Human sensors will feed the global mega machine
Intelligent systems will increasingly solicit our ‘help’ to gather data
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The return of the incumbent?
A reflection on the demise of Big Tech and the return of industrial incumbents
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The case for climate radicalism
The impacts of climate change are increasingly being felt all across the globe.
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Rediscovering the collective dimension of freedom
How the classic political philosophy of liberalism can broaden our individualistic interpretation of freedom.
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The Deep Transitions Framework; an elaboration
A theoretical and empirical elaboration on the Deep Transitions Framework, designed to contribute to a just, equitable and healthy planet.
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De-influencers or re-influencers?
Criticism of consumer society is of all ages, but now it’s coming from an unexpected corner.
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Sticky dependence: Europe’s reliance on Russia
Although Europe wants to decouple from Russia, our countries’ dependence is stickier and more complex than we might have estimated
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How Weirdcore and Y2K aesthetics took over TikTok in times of despair
What style reveals regarding playful nihilism, emotional spending, and dread
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Is AI still artificial?
Definitions are becoming obsolete as tech and science blur the boundaries between the natural and the artificial
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Will generative AI favor the underdog?
The implications of generative AI for tech and talent
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