Research

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

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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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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.

The artisan versus the engineer: masters of the universe

What kind of skills should we (not) cultivate for generative AI?

We are the products of technological mediation

What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI

When images matter more than reality

A reflection on Vilém Flusser's philosophy of photography in the age of social media

The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)

When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent

Knit’s Island and the future of the metaverse

An immersive and fascinating documentary about life in a virtual world

The robots among us

About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots

The age of the machine: emancipation or alienation of the human?

Understanding the role of machines in society

Short-sighted AI regulations miss the big picture

How can we ensure that AI is not only safe but also resonates with our broader norms and values?

Philosophical prompt engineering in an AI-driven world

Why philosophical questioning and the art of posing the right questions becomes more important because of generative AI

The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse

About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals