Research

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

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The sleeping Asian Tiger

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Will local-multiplayer survive in the video game industry?

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Human’s intangible stock of capital

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Urban agriculture

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Many silk connections

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Exporting surveillance

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Populist puzzles

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The coming together of the BRICS

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From body positivity to body neutrality

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European parties in search for voters

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Rise of online education in the corporate education sector

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The rise (and descent) of the vertical city

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The selfish ledger

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The shaky rise of digital gambling

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A future-proof Dutch agrofood sector

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Disappearing rhythms

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Deep transitions

Will we consider abandoning hyper productivity in favor of sustainability and equality?

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Schoolification

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Dutch future welfare

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Who owns the data of the city?

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Is Italy crossing the Rubicon?

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The third urbanization wave

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Can E-learning bridge Africa’s education gap?

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Can Cuba be libre?

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The medium is (liable for) the message

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Eastern European implosion

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The walls of the home are breaking down

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Evolving nature

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Sexual solipsism

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