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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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Technology on a leash
By sharing ownership and control with producers and governments, our smart devices are no longer what they seem
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Venetian, young and farming: three lessons from the new generation of Italian farmers on agri-food sustainability
Julia Rijssenbeek and Maya Turolla turn the spotlight on young farmers championing the transition to sustainable food systems.
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Politics should focus more on the Good Life
How can we reinstate the concept of the Good without downplaying the systemic risks threatening our global society?
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The rise of CBDCs
Pim Korsten gives a rundown on the opportunities and risks of the rise of central bank digital currencies.
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What is Russia's view on climate change?
Melting ice caps in the Arctic are incentivizing Russia’s exploitation and extraction of natural resources representing the last straw of the Anthropocene.
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The energy transition is not a hobby
With the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, we have to face the fact that our dependence on fossil fuels poses a structural problem.
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Autocracy and the End of History
Is the ideological confrontation between the liberal-democratic and autocratic world order on its way to becoming the global political issue of our century?
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Russian digitalization through a Cosmist lens
To understand Russian politics, we need to understand Russian Cosmism, a philosophy that supports the digitalization of the Arctic.
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An introduction to the Stack
Learn more about our framework that helps us understand the anatomy of digital systems.
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Russia’s strategic exploitation of the Arctic
A long-standing resource-dependent economy, a melting Arctic, and technical capabilities have thrown the Arctic into the spotlight for Russia’s upcoming economic strategy.
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