Research

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

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Our uniform global diet

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The rise (and descent) of the vertical city

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Rise of online education in the corporate education sector

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European parties in search for voters

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From body positivity to body neutrality

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The coming together of the BRICS

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Populist puzzles

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Exporting surveillance

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Many silk connections

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Urban agriculture

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Human’s intangible stock of capital

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Will local-multiplayer survive in the video game industry?

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The sleeping Asian Tiger

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The intelligence of AI

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Germany’s growing realpolitik

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Technological momentum

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A new generation of American social democrats

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Mexico charts a new course

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Bullshit jobs in the digital age

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The bigger picture economy

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China’s financial reform

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The “good” consumer

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Arbitrary decisions

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Europe's innovation horizon

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A tale of two Indias

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Personalized competence-based learning

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Early celebrations in Turkey

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Emerging markets have their moment to shine

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Galactic hegemony

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China’s challenges towards semiconductor autonomy

Are we heading towards post-human intelligence?

Rethinking being human in a more-than-human world

Beyond planetary boundaries: towards Earth systems justice

Linking new developments in Earth systems research to the Deep Transitions Framework

The future of inflation and interest rates

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

FreedomLab Selects: Rinus van de Velde — The Armchair Voyager

Vivian Elion analyses the surrealistic exhibition of Rinus van de Velde through the lens of metamodernism.

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?

Health is the luxury to fall sick and recover

Towards an enriched concept of the normal and the pathological

ChatGPT and the place of the human being in an automated society

An unconventional reflection on Hannah Arendt’s philosophy

Urban greening should focus on equity, not nature

The external valuation of nature in city planning could withhold green areas from becoming accessible to all

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