Research

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

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Will peace come to the Korean peninsula?

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K-12 online tutoring

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The Ocean Economy

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Sexual solipsism

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Evolving nature

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The walls of the home are breaking down

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Eastern European implosion

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The medium is (liable for) the message

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Can Cuba be libre?

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Can E-learning bridge Africa’s education gap?

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The blue frontier

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China’s social credit system is taking shape

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Great at being small

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Spoiler culture

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Debunking democracies

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A new narrative for old age

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Different cultures, same demand for future skills

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eHealth as a driver of change in digitalization processes

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Equality, authenticity and excellence in education

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Travel, transform, repeat

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Is the next wave of influencers digital?

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Russia and the West

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The future of public transport

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Let’s get digital

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Business ethics: still an oxymoron?

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Asia’s financial catch-up

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South Africa’s new dawn

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