Research

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

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Vaccine diplomacy

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Does the future belong to Keynes and Mazzucato?

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How do we distil a good narrative from 2020?

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Biden’s America on the world stage

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The Retroscope 2020

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Transatlantic troubles

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The sound and cost of silence

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The 'Brussels effect' on digital legislation

Europe is reinventing its digital Stack by taking the lead in legislation implementation

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Disinformation and the false believe we are autonomous in our search for knowledge

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The coronavirus is creating momentum for fiscal diet policy

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Our image of Chinese power

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Trump is making opposition media great (the platform becomes the bubble)

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Carbon border tax

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The future of Trumpism

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Biden: neither friend nor foe to big tech

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The geopolitics of rare earth metals

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The sharing economy is dead, long live the rental economy

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Are we sharing enough data?

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Who do we trust in the Stack war?

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The not-so United States of America

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The sterile human and the biomedical disease model

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Human death as a boost for the use of ecological materials

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The outdoor economy

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Hollywood paves the way for diversity and representation

Will old mistakes continue to be made?

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The future of monetary policy and central banks

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The new power of technical standards

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Blurring boundaries with mixed reality toys

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The long hegemony of currency

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Is the meme culture causing an increase in widespread stereotypes?

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American soft power is under pressure

A new dawn for nationalist parties?

For many, the brutal geopolitical awakening caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China threatening to invade Taiwan means freedom is back on the political agenda...

Vibegeist: rave until the grave

The revival of rave and rage in the roaring twenties.

Who has to pay the costs of climate change?

Issuing appeals for hundreds of millions in emergency funding to help victims of climate change might soon be a standard procedure.

"Creative" AI is recreating the creative industry

In the past few months, creative AI systems such as DALL-E and Midjourney have taken the internet by storm with their “artistic” creations.

To cyberspace and beyond

How the cyborg movies of the ‘90s made us fantasize about mind uploading, sentient AI and immortality.

How will the metaverse and web3 influence social media?

Brace yourself, the 2D newsfeeds gracing our screens might soon be part of internet history.

Geopolitical nonalignment in the 21st century

Escalating tensions in Taiwan and Ukraine are pressuring the world to choose an alignment, yet many nations refuse to choose sides.

The fragmentation of social media

When Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian are starting to revolt, you know Instagram is getting into trouble...

The early days of cyberpunk

As man becomes machine and machine becomes man.

The return of industrial policy

The Dutch government is rethinking industrial policy—more coordination is on the horizon.