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Feeding the dragon
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Inequality in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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Netflix’s Bandersnatch: the beginning of embedded content interfaces
Netflix's interactive film 'Bandersnatch' could set the trend for embedded content interfaces in films and shows.
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Farming in the Anthropocene by improving photosynthesis
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Managing your digital identity
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Volatility in the Tech Stack
A closer look at the fundamental trajectories and interdependent nature of new technologies
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Signs of a next green revolution
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Retroscope 2018: Technological cycle
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Retroscope 2018: Hegemonic cycle
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Retroscope 2018: Socio-cultural
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Retroscope 2018: Disruption in the making
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Peak social
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Open-source software is eating the world
Open-source software is crucial in our daily lives, and recent acquisitions of GitHub and Red Hat highlight its importance.
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The protein folding revolution
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Accounting for natural capital
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Open data empowerment
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Our polygenic scores tell us who we are
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City region foodscapes
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Fighting terrorism has been a recurring issue in the history of Europe
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Our diverging responses to climate change
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From bits to atoms
Will platforms like Uber and Airbnb continue to succeed without physical assets?
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Divided Brazil will be urged to look inwards
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A return to utopian thinking
In the last decade, pragmatic utopian thinking has gained considerable popularity in different domains.
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The age of genetic information
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Google predicts a rising Chinese internet
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In search of a narrative for Europe
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Food is the key to achieving Sustainable Development Goals
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Facebook’s flirt with crypto and blockchain
Will Big Tech companies like Facebook have a role in the crypto landscape?
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Our uniform global diet
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Technical hurdles towards the cryptoworld
Arief Hühn outlines possible solutions to the current limitations of the crypto world.
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Computers need a language for causal reasoning
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Will new generations travel differently?
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Could we live without a job?
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Reinventing urban waterways
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Looking for the long term
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How digital technology will change our relationship to nature
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Visual search tools are building a bridge
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China’s digital platforms as a regional standard
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Biohacking diets
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The revival of the Rhine Model for digital capitalism
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