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

Are we heading towards post-human intelligence?

Rethinking being human in a more-than-human world

Beyond planetary boundaries: towards Earth systems justice

Linking new developments in Earth systems research to the Deep Transitions Framework

The future of inflation and interest rates

A long-term view on the drivers of inflation and monetary policy

FreedomLab Selects: Rinus van de Velde — The Armchair Voyager

Vivian Elion analyses the surrealistic exhibition of Rinus van de Velde through the lens of metamodernism.

Has AI become indistinguishable from life itself?

Developments in AI lead to new speculations about the role of technologies in the evolution of life.

Romantic robots: a new love paradigm

Will our society's progressive values lead us to embrace a new romantic paradigm?

Health is the luxury to fall sick and recover

Towards an enriched concept of the normal and the pathological

ChatGPT and the place of the human being in an automated society

An unconventional reflection on Hannah Arendt’s philosophy

Urban greening should focus on equity, not nature

The external valuation of nature in city planning could withhold green areas from becoming accessible to all

Learning to waste

All manufacturing produces waste, even the clean energy industry. Critical clean energy technologies – EV batteries, solar panels, wind turbine blades – lead to a massive problem with waste management