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Megablockbusters: A societal forum for the negotiation of social values
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Capitalists’ worries about capitalism
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Sustainable by default
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The dilemma of future sports regulation
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Spain has proven to be far from immune to the populist wave sweeping across Europe
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Is TikTok a vector for Chinese ideals?
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To measure someone is to know someone
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The social promise of augmented reality
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Can’t live with social media, can’t live without it
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The Arctic through the eyes of Greenland
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Sustainable minerals for sustainable technology
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Got milk?
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Africa is set to become world’s largest free trade area
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Illegal streaming holds the media industry in check
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Contemporary spirituality is all about the self
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The Dragon and the Elephant in the 21st century
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The Africa Stack
The African continent might be leapfrogging into the digital economy
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Can algorithms be neutral?
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Where architecture and IT meet
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21st century Luddites target self-driving cars
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Scaling bitcoin with the lightning network
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The future of Europe from an Asian perspective
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The evolving landscape of consumer trust
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Populism and the shifting climate change debate
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Geopolitics of aid and development cooperation
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Particularly deadly matter
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The VAR system and the datafication of everyday life
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Facebook’s strategy for a decentralized future
Will Facebook orchestrate its own disruption?
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Slowing down fast fashion
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Sports wearables: When the amateur goes pro
The widespread use of performance-tracking technologies has changed the practice of sports
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The quitters of open societies
What happens when we no longer play a common game
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Is science to blame for post-truth politics?
How the left contributed to the deconstruction of truth
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Perspectives on the post-truth era
The 'enshittification' of society
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A milestone!
FreedomLab commemorates its 500th article with a retrospective of its publication history
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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
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Forget about the (human) parents
Meet the cyborgs
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The enhanced human: stronger, better, happier
Why we might all become centaurs according to transhumanists
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The deficient animal: artificial by nature
And why the idea of helpful AI agents might be a misleading, anthropocentric notion
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Genuine writing in the digital age
An inconvenient effort worth pursuing
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The AI chips race (part II)
Chips are at the heart of the generative AI Stack
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