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My plant the therapist
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After work thoughts
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The automobile is on its way out
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The resistance to the hegemony of the App Store
As emerging tech companies become more influential their relationships with big tech are increasingly strained
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QAnon and knowledge
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Today’s class of uncontrollable technology
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Cell factories
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Food nationalism
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Our post-corona relationship to nature
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Wicked dilemmas and political decision-making
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Global value chains are experiencing a formative moment
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Inequality kills
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Could Europe fix the internet?
Europe aims to restore competitiveness and sovereignty in the digital realm through policies on data-sharing, AI, and open internet.
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In the back end of our cities
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Scenario thinking: embracing uncertainty
Will we soon let go of traditional forecasting in favor of multi-dimensional scenario thinking?
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The Dutch way of going circular
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Europe’s geopolitical strategy is a green strategy
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The (un)changing doctor-patient relationship
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Game engines are revolutionizing filmmaking
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Geopolitics of food
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Retroscope 2019: Technological cycle
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Retroscope 2019: Socio-cultural
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Retroscope 2019: Hegemonic cycle
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Retroscope 2019: Disruption in the making
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When we really become hybrid beings
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Interactive elements in movies and series
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Pan-Africanism today
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Gut feeling and the future of nutrigenomics
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Horror in times of uncertainty
Horror movies allow us to safely explore extreme scenarios... what do they tell us about our current fears?
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Are we facing limits to growth?
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The quitters of open societies
What happens when we no longer play a common game
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Is science to blame for post-truth politics?
How the left contributed to the deconstruction of truth
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Perspectives on the post-truth era
The 'enshittification' of society
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A milestone!
FreedomLab commemorates its 500th article with a retrospective of its publication history
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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
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Forget about the (human) parents
Meet the cyborgs
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The enhanced human: stronger, better, happier
Why we might all become centaurs according to transhumanists
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The deficient animal: artificial by nature
And why the idea of helpful AI agents might be a misleading, anthropocentric notion
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Genuine writing in the digital age
An inconvenient effort worth pursuing
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The AI chips race (part II)
Chips are at the heart of the generative AI Stack
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