Research

Explore over 500 articles on prevailing megatrends in tech, politics and society.

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Marx in the 21st century

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The rise of midsized cities

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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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Healthy infrastructure

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The future of public transport

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Russia and the West

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Is the next wave of influencers digital?

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Travel, transform, repeat

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Equality, authenticity and excellence in education

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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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Debunking democracies

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Spoiler culture

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Great at being small

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China’s social credit system is taking shape

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The blue frontier

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Business ethics: still an oxymoron?

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Let’s get digital

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Is Wikipedia the Red Cross of the Infocalypse?

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America’s renewed friendship with Saudi Arabia

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South Africa’s new dawn

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Asia’s financial catch-up

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A solid but sober EU

Who has to pay the costs of climate change?

Issuing appeals for hundreds of millions in emergency funding to help victims of climate change might soon be a standard procedure.

"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.

To cyberspace and beyond

How the cyborg movies of the ‘90s made us fantasize about mind uploading, sentient AI and immortality.

How will the metaverse and web3 influence social media?

Brace yourself, the 2D newsfeeds gracing our screens might soon be part of internet history.

Geopolitical nonalignment in the 21st century

Escalating tensions in Taiwan and Ukraine are pressuring the world to choose an alignment, yet many nations refuse to choose sides.

The fragmentation of social media

When Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian are starting to revolt, you know Instagram is getting into trouble...

The early days of cyberpunk

As man becomes machine and machine becomes man.

The return of industrial policy

The Dutch government is rethinking industrial policy—more coordination is on the horizon.

AI regulations may see a Beijing effect

Is Europe too late to cause a Brussels effect on AI technology?

When the selfie becomes an avatar

How Instagram is preparing itself for the metaverse