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

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The traffic light turns green for German digitalization

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China’s CBDC-as-a-standard?

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The future of the anti-establishment, conservative right

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Climate litigation and civil society

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What would a sufficiently sustainable ordinary life look like?

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A new narrative on climate change

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On the Chinese variety of capitalism

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How to deal with the medical uncertainty of Long COVID?

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India’s rise as a digital superpower

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On realizing we are not alone

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Judges break the unwritten rule of environmental agreements

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Winter is ending

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The G7 tax deal is all about American geo-economics

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We need more downward mobility

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The emergence of big tech mesh networks

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Lifestyle politics in the planetary age

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Elon Musk – What does his popularity tell us about 21st century leadership?

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Hegemonic shift makes the European Super League inevitable

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The not-so-bright future after the pandemic

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Building national character based on trauma

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The European deep transition strategy

The EU is leveraging the “Brussels Effect” to establish the metarules of the Second Deep Transition.

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Digital advertising in a post-cookie world

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Non-fungible tokens are all the rage

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Harvest now, decrypt later

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Will a post-corona era arrive in the coming years?

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The unique strength of Chinese business alliances

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Democratization of finance

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Crowdsourcing morality for autonomous systems

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Food security will have its moment on the world stage

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Vaccine diplomacy

How collective behavior change can foster a sustainable future

A dive into the heart of the degrowth movement

Apple’s enduring quest for the disappearing computer

The next step into the era of spatial computing

What would it take for us to believe in aliens?

Believing the unbelievable in times of disinformation and deepfakes

The Indian Stack goes global

Is a decentralized, open-source Indian-European Stack emerging?

Another piece on Barbenheimer

On the cultural significance of summer blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer

Will generative AI bring the productivity increases we need?

Information technology and the lack of corresponding increases in productivity

The hottest farmers' debate

On the power of Big Food over farmers

Breaking the bottleneck

Can state-led initiatives relying on market mechanisms help us achieve our decarbonization goals?

Are we heading towards post-human intelligence?

Rethinking being human in a more-than-human world

Beyond planetary boundaries: towards Earth systems justice

Linking new developments in Earth systems research to the Deep Transitions Framework