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

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Libra’s next hurdle: financial regulators and governments

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The rising costs of carbon emissions

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One picture ≠ a thousand words

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Will the U.S. see a tidal wave of environmental regulations after 2020?

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Why is Maduro still in power in Venezuela?

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Demographics and hegemony

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The value of apocalyptic climate scenarios

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Who are the African youth?

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Breaking down data & AI silos

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The elastic generation

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The end of the pay-per-download era

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East Asia becomes the center of geopolitical competition

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Modern monetary policy

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Hegel and the unfolding idea of freedom in the 21st century

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Don Ihde and generational responses to digital technology

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Chinese philosopher Yuk Hui: "Technology has multiple futures"

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Reflecting on responsibility in AI with Daniel Dennett

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The codification of public policy

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Alternatives at the return of history

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Fleeing from the public squares of the internet

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Rocky road ahead for Europe despite disappointment by populists

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The carbon capture era

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Future leaders get a taste of new economics

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A democratic boost for Asia’s next growth engines

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Is EdTech addressing the demands of 21st century education?

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The higher purpose of motor sports

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Whistleblower platforms in the wake of Wikileaks’ demise

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The critical shaping moment of Lava Jato

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The emergence of the decentralized stack

Is the future open-source?

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

The AI chips race (part II)

Chips are at the heart of the generative AI Stack