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Everybody is a self-tracker
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E-sports on steroids
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Central banks rethink their purpose
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The age of digital mega-ecosystems
Digital ecosystems have the potential to address consumer needs, but obstacles still exist in their implementation.
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How to make the transition to a sustainable everyday life
Has the time come for personal carbon footprint calculators?
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The future of globalization
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The end of the Fourth Hegemonic Cycle
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The virtual of virtual reality
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Limits to facial recognition
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Making sense of automation tax
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A plant-centered view of the world
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The quiet Russian Resurgence
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Indian innovation
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Health concerns surrounding 5G
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Smart home care for our second adulthood
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Revolutionaries between UFOs and raids
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The European Green Deal
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Every bit has a price
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The elemental evolution of media
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Will hiding the like button help Facebook?
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Computers need a language for causal reasoning
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Will new generations travel differently?
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Could we live without a job?
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Reinventing urban waterways
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Looking for the long term
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How digital technology will change our relationship to nature
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Visual search tools are building a bridge
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China’s digital platforms as a regional standard
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Biohacking diets
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The revival of the Rhine Model for digital capitalism
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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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