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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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Gen AI
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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?
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Technology on a leash
By sharing ownership and control with producers and governments, our smart devices are no longer what they seem
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Venetian, young and farming: three lessons from the new generation of Italian farmers on agri-food sustainability
Julia Rijssenbeek and Maya Turolla turn the spotlight on young farmers championing the transition to sustainable food systems.
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Politics should focus more on the Good Life
How can we reinstate the concept of the Good without downplaying the systemic risks threatening our global society?
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The rise of CBDCs
Pim Korsten gives a rundown on the opportunities and risks of the rise of central bank digital currencies.
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What is Russia's view on climate change?
Melting ice caps in the Arctic are incentivizing Russia’s exploitation and extraction of natural resources representing the last straw of the Anthropocene.
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The energy transition is not a hobby
With the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, we have to face the fact that our dependence on fossil fuels poses a structural problem.
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Autocracy and the End of History
Is the ideological confrontation between the liberal-democratic and autocratic world order on its way to becoming the global political issue of our century?
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Russian digitalization through a Cosmist lens
To understand Russian politics, we need to understand Russian Cosmism, a philosophy that supports the digitalization of the Arctic.
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An introduction to the Stack
Learn more about our framework that helps us understand the anatomy of digital systems.
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Russia’s strategic exploitation of the Arctic
A long-standing resource-dependent economy, a melting Arctic, and technical capabilities have thrown the Arctic into the spotlight for Russia’s upcoming economic strategy.
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