Research

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

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The Ocean Economy

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K-12 online tutoring

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Will peace come to the Korean peninsula?

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Marx in the 21st century

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The rise of midsized cities

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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Mobility as a Service

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Taking games to the cloud

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Building memory in the information age

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The API Economy

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Healthy infrastructure

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The future of public transport

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Russia and the West

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Is the next wave of influencers digital?

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Travel, transform, repeat

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Equality, authenticity and excellence in education

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eHealth as a driver of change in digitalization processes

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Different cultures, same demand for future skills

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A new narrative for old age

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Debunking democracies

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Spoiler culture

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Great at being small

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China’s social credit system is taking shape

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The blue frontier

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Business ethics: still an oxymoron?

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Let’s get digital

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Is Wikipedia the Red Cross of the Infocalypse?

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America’s renewed friendship with Saudi Arabia

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