Research

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

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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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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

The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse

About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals

Degrowth will make us happier

Understanding wellbeing beyond economic growth

How collective behavior change can foster a sustainable future

A dive into the heart of the degrowth movement

Apple’s enduring quest for the disappearing computer

The next step into the era of spatial computing

What would it take for us to believe in aliens?

Believing the unbelievable in times of disinformation and deepfakes

The Indian Stack goes global

Is a decentralized, open-source Indian-European Stack emerging?

Another piece on Barbenheimer

On the cultural significance of summer blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer

Will generative AI bring the productivity increases we need?

Information technology and the lack of corresponding increases in productivity

The hottest farmers' debate

On the power of Big Food over farmers

Breaking the bottleneck

Can state-led initiatives relying on market mechanisms help us achieve our decarbonization goals?