Research

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

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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

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South Africa’s new dawn

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