Research

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

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Biden’s America on the world stage

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How do we distil a good narrative from 2020?

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Does the future belong to Keynes and Mazzucato?

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Vaccine diplomacy

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Food security will have its moment on the world stage

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The Retroscope 2020

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Disinformation and the false believe we are autonomous in our search for knowledge

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The 'Brussels effect' on digital legislation

Europe is reinventing its digital Stack by taking the lead in legislation implementation

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The sound and cost of silence

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Transatlantic troubles

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Our image of Chinese power

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The coronavirus is creating momentum for fiscal diet policy

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Biden: neither friend nor foe to big tech

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The future of Trumpism

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Carbon border tax

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Trump is making opposition media great (the platform becomes the bubble)

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Are we sharing enough data?

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The sharing economy is dead, long live the rental economy

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The geopolitics of rare earth metals

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Human death as a boost for the use of ecological materials

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The sterile human and the biomedical disease model

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The not-so United States of America

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Who do we trust in the Stack war?

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The new power of technical standards

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The future of monetary policy and central banks

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Hollywood paves the way for diversity and representation

Will old mistakes continue to be made?

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The outdoor economy

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American soft power is under pressure

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Is the meme culture causing an increase in widespread stereotypes?

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The long hegemony of currency

Digital facts and objectivity in the 'TrustTech Stack' and network ontology

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 quitters of open societies

What happens when we no longer play a common game

Is science to blame for post-truth politics?

How the left contributed to the deconstruction of truth

Perspectives on the post-truth era

The 'enshittification' of society

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

The narratives struggling to define the impact of AI on the labor market

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

Forget about the (human) parents

Meet the cyborgs

The enhanced human: stronger, better, happier

Why we might all become centaurs according to transhumanists

The deficient animal: artificial by nature

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

Genuine writing in the digital age

An inconvenient effort worth pursuing