Research

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

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Digitizing food

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Rethinking our human design

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The view from above

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Speculation as a way to design the future

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Your diploma is OK, what are your skills?

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The bright side of cybercrime

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New materialism

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Europe’s resurging South

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We are running out of sand

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Asia’s next growth engines

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Data has a will of its own

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The future of human competences

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Unlocking the mind

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Breathing is the new smoking

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Our technological relation to nature

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The downside of radical tokenization

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Speculating through CES

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How autonomous vehicles will change our lives

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Who will be the 21st-century Henry Ford?

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The delivery economy

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China’s new green normal

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Where does content generation stop and technology begin?

How the verticalization of entertainment platforms is shaping the media landscape

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Shifts in the global food system

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