Research

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

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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

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The Ocean Economy

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

Pills, pills, pills

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