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

Pills, pills, pills

Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises

FreedomLab Selects: Metroid Prime Remastered

An adventurous and immersive journey to overcome an alienated world and yourself

Are weapons still a sin stock?

Changes in narratives, economic structures and the nature of technology could be altering the status of defense stock.

Human sensors will feed the global mega machine

Intelligent systems will increasingly solicit our ‘help’ to gather data

The return of the incumbent?

A reflection on the demise of Big Tech and the return of industrial incumbents

The case for climate radicalism

The impacts of climate change are increasingly being felt all across the globe.

Rediscovering the collective dimension of freedom

How the classic political philosophy of liberalism can broaden our individualistic interpretation of freedom.

The Deep Transitions Framework; an elaboration

A theoretical and empirical elaboration on the Deep Transitions Framework, designed to contribute to a just, equitable and healthy planet.

De-influencers or re-influencers?

Criticism of consumer society is of all ages, but now it’s coming from an unexpected corner.

Sticky dependence: Europe’s reliance on Russia

Although Europe wants to decouple from Russia, our countries’ dependence is stickier and more complex than we might have estimated