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Eurasian momentum
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One grid to rule them all
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What can the U.S. learn from European schools?
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Meaningful entertainment in the digital age
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Narrative of Big Tech
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Migration concentration
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Shadow power in the global technological arms race
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Fewer staff, more data
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Solar power nears terminal velocity
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A multipolar military world
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The CRISPR’d era
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Apple’s quest for the disappearing computer
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Deep transitions
Will we consider abandoning hyper productivity in favor of sustainability and equality?
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Disappearing rhythms
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A future-proof Dutch agrofood sector
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The shaky rise of digital gambling
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The selfish ledger
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The third urbanization wave
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Is Italy crossing the Rubicon?
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Who owns the data of the city?
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Dutch future welfare
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Schoolification
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The API Economy
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Building memory in the information age
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Taking games to the cloud
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Mobility as a Service
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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The rise of midsized cities
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Marx in the 21st century
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Emerging markets face tough financial challenges
Will emerging markets' recovery be halted by increasing financial problems?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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