Research

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

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Are we facing limits to growth?

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Everybody is a self-tracker

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The age of digital mega-ecosystems

Digital ecosystems have the potential to address consumer needs, but obstacles still exist in their implementation.

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Central banks rethink their purpose

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E-sports on steroids

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The end of the Fourth Hegemonic Cycle

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The future of globalization

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How to make the transition to a sustainable everyday life

Has the time come for personal carbon footprint calculators?

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A plant-centered view of the world

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Making sense of automation tax

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Limits to facial recognition

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The virtual of virtual reality

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Smart home care for our second adulthood

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Health concerns surrounding 5G

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Indian innovation

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The quiet Russian Resurgence

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The elemental evolution of media

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Every bit has a price

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The European Green Deal

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Revolutionaries between UFOs and raids

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Could we live without a job?

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Will new generations travel differently?

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Computers need a language for causal reasoning

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Will hiding the like button help Facebook?

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Visual search tools are building a bridge

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How digital technology will change our relationship to nature

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Looking for the long term

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Reinventing urban waterways

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The revival of the Rhine Model for digital capitalism

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Biohacking diets

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