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The emergence of the decentralized stack
Is the future open-source?
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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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The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse
About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals
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Degrowth will make us happier
Understanding wellbeing beyond economic growth
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How collective behavior change can foster a sustainable future
A dive into the heart of the degrowth movement
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Apple’s enduring quest for the disappearing computer
The next step into the era of spatial computing
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What would it take for us to believe in aliens?
Believing the unbelievable in times of disinformation and deepfakes
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The Indian Stack goes global
Is a decentralized, open-source Indian-European Stack emerging?
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Another piece on Barbenheimer
On the cultural significance of summer blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer
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Will generative AI bring the productivity increases we need?
Information technology and the lack of corresponding increases in productivity
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The hottest farmers' debate
On the power of Big Food over farmers
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Breaking the bottleneck
Can state-led initiatives relying on market mechanisms help us achieve our decarbonization goals?
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