Research

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

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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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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

Pills, pills, pills

Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises

FreedomLab Selects: Metroid Prime Remastered

An adventurous and immersive journey to overcome an alienated world and yourself

Are weapons still a sin stock?

Changes in narratives, economic structures and the nature of technology could be altering the status of defense stock.

Human sensors will feed the global mega machine

Intelligent systems will increasingly solicit our ‘help’ to gather data

The return of the incumbent?

A reflection on the demise of Big Tech and the return of industrial incumbents

The case for climate radicalism

The impacts of climate change are increasingly being felt all across the globe.

Rediscovering the collective dimension of freedom

How the classic political philosophy of liberalism can broaden our individualistic interpretation of freedom.

The Deep Transitions Framework; an elaboration

A theoretical and empirical elaboration on the Deep Transitions Framework, designed to contribute to a just, equitable and healthy planet.

De-influencers or re-influencers?

Criticism of consumer society is of all ages, but now it’s coming from an unexpected corner.

Sticky dependence: Europe’s reliance on Russia

Although Europe wants to decouple from Russia, our countries’ dependence is stickier and more complex than we might have estimated