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Are we facing limits to growth?
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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 return of industrial policy
The Dutch government is rethinking industrial policy—more coordination is on the horizon.
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AI regulations may see a Beijing effect
Is Europe too late to cause a Brussels effect on AI technology?
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When the selfie becomes an avatar
How Instagram is preparing itself for the metaverse
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Globalization can still be a force for good
A general narrative is emerging that international trade and cooperation are on the decline. Is it accurate?
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Is Texas becoming too self-confident?
Texan rebellion is likely to shake up federal politics in the U.S.
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Picking up the crypto pieces
Companies are on the lookout for opportunities during the crypto crash
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Gen Z chooses anonymity over fame
Why are Gen Zers more likely to prefer online anonymity compared to millennials?
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From labor to exploitation: the dark side of blockchain games
What does it take to create a flourishing virtual economy?
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Resurrecting the dead in the digital era
Will deepfake videos, the latest and most versatile medium to eternalize the dead, impel us to regulate digital immortality?
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Extending the self with Instagram's augmented-reality face filters
Are we moving towards a culture in which our digitally positioned self is more important than our actual self?
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