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The view from above
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Speculation as a way to design the future
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Your diploma is OK, what are your skills?
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Europe’s resurging South
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We are running out of sand
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Asia’s next growth engines
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Data has a will of its own
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The future of human competences
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Unlocking the mind
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Breathing is the new smoking
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Our technological relation to nature
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The downside of radical tokenization
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How autonomous vehicles will change our lives
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Who will be the 21st-century Henry Ford?
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The delivery economy
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China’s new green normal
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Where does content generation stop and technology begin?
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Shifts in the global food system
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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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