Research

Explore over 500 articles on prevailing megatrends in tech, politics and society.

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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

Beyond planetary boundaries: towards Earth systems justice

Linking new developments in Earth systems research to the Deep Transitions Framework

The future of inflation and interest rates

A long-term view on the drivers of inflation and monetary policy

FreedomLab Selects: Rinus van de Velde — The Armchair Voyager

Vivian Elion analyses the surrealistic exhibition of Rinus van de Velde through the lens of metamodernism.

Has AI become indistinguishable from life itself?

Developments in AI lead to new speculations about the role of technologies in the evolution of life.

Romantic robots: a new love paradigm

Will our society's progressive values lead us to embrace a new romantic paradigm?

Health is the luxury to fall sick and recover

Towards an enriched concept of the normal and the pathological

ChatGPT and the place of the human being in an automated society

An unconventional reflection on Hannah Arendt’s philosophy

Urban greening should focus on equity, not nature

The external valuation of nature in city planning could withhold green areas from becoming accessible to all

Learning to waste

All manufacturing produces waste, even the clean energy industry. Critical clean energy technologies – EV batteries, solar panels, wind turbine blades – lead to a massive problem with waste management

Pills, pills, pills

Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises