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What is the impact of mindfulness on society?
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How China sees Hong Kong
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Building bridges to the crypto space
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Generation Alpha
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Zeroing in on 0.0% beers
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The rise of the Asian Aerotropolis
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Online language is better language
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Natural elements become critical resources
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The dominance of movie franchises
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Apple’s silent transition into the next computing paradigm
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The European Stack is taking shape
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The plant-based protein transition
What fundamental factors are causing and fueling the transition?
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Will climate engineering save the planet?
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Multilateralism and the decline of the U.S. hegemony
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Worker rights, a new frontier for reducing U.S. inequality?
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The quest for autonomy in the digital age
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Gen Z in the generational cycle
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Japan, Korea and the global semiconductor industry
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Reality is holding back self-driving cars
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The depth of deep ecology
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The internet of thoughts
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A phronetic approach to healthcare
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Healthcare in the 2020 U.S. elections
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The ambiguity of self-tracking for health
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Precautionary screening for the masses?
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The French Renaissance
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Will China become a sustainability leader?
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New hope for the liberal world order?
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Our cities as AR gaming arenas
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High hopes for holiness
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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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