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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 artisan versus the engineer: masters of the universe
What kind of skills should we (not) cultivate for generative AI?
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We are the products of technological mediation
What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI
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When images matter more than reality
A reflection on Vilém Flusser's philosophy of photography in the age of social media
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The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)
When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent
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Knit’s Island and the future of the metaverse
An immersive and fascinating documentary about life in a virtual world
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The robots among us
About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots
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The age of the machine: emancipation or alienation of the human?
Understanding the role of machines in society
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Short-sighted AI regulations miss the big picture
How can we ensure that AI is not only safe but also resonates with our broader norms and values?
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Philosophical prompt engineering in an AI-driven world
Why philosophical questioning and the art of posing the right questions becomes more important because of generative AI
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The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse
About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals
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