Research

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

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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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Apple’s quest for the disappearing computer

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The CRISPR’d era

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A multipolar military world

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Solar power nears terminal velocity

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Fewer staff, more data

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Shadow power in the global technological arms race

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Migration concentration

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Narrative of Big Tech

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Meaningful entertainment in the digital age

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What can the U.S. learn from European schools?

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One grid to rule them all

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Eurasian momentum

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China’s challenges towards semiconductor autonomy

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Galactic hegemony

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Emerging markets have their moment to shine

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Early celebrations in Turkey

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Personalized competence-based learning

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A tale of two Indias

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Europe's innovation horizon

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Arbitrary decisions

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The “good” consumer

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China’s financial reform

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The bigger picture economy

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Bullshit jobs in the digital age

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Mexico charts a new course

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A new generation of American social democrats

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Technological momentum

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Germany’s growing realpolitik

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The intelligence of AI

Digital facts and objectivity in the 'TrustTech Stack' and network ontology

How can the Stack and Bruno Latour's network ontology help to give a more positive conception of the construction of digital facts and objectivity?

The quitters of open societies

What happens when we no longer play a common game

Is science to blame for post-truth politics?

How the left contributed to the deconstruction of truth

Perspectives on the post-truth era

The 'enshittification' of society

FreedomLab commemorates its 500th article with a retrospective of its publication history

The narratives struggling to define the impact of AI on the labor market

High expectations, disillusionment, and realism—the usual players in AI predictions are all present

Forget about the (human) parents

Meet the cyborgs

The enhanced human: stronger, better, happier

Why we might all become centaurs according to transhumanists

The deficient animal: artificial by nature

And why the idea of helpful AI agents might be a misleading, anthropocentric notion

Genuine writing in the digital age

An inconvenient effort worth pursuing