Research

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

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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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Healthy infrastructure

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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

Are we heading towards post-human intelligence?

Rethinking being human in a more-than-human world

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