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

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How a decline in trust can be a driver for new political leadership

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The traffic light turns green for German digitalization

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The ‘Wechselstimmung’ after Merkel

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The future of the anti-establishment, conservative right

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China’s CBDC-as-a-standard?

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A new narrative on climate change

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What would a sufficiently sustainable ordinary life look like?

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Climate litigation and civil society

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How to deal with the medical uncertainty of Long COVID?

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On the Chinese variety of capitalism

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On realizing we are not alone

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India’s rise as a digital superpower

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Winter is ending

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Judges break the unwritten rule of environmental agreements

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We need more downward mobility

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The G7 tax deal is all about American geo-economics

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Lifestyle politics in the planetary age

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The emergence of big tech mesh networks

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Hegemonic shift makes the European Super League inevitable

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Elon Musk – What does his popularity tell us about 21st century leadership?

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Building national character based on trauma

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The not-so-bright future after the pandemic

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Digital advertising in a post-cookie world

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The European deep transition strategy

The EU is leveraging the “Brussels Effect” to establish the metarules of the Second Deep Transition.

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Harvest now, decrypt later

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Non-fungible tokens are all the rage

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The unique strength of Chinese business alliances

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Will a post-corona era arrive in the coming years?

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Crowdsourcing morality for autonomous systems

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Democratization of finance

AI regulations may see a Beijing effect

Is Europe too late to cause a Brussels effect on AI technology?

The return of industrial policy

The Dutch government is rethinking industrial policy—more coordination is on the horizon.

When the selfie becomes an avatar

How Instagram is preparing itself for the metaverse

Globalization can still be a force for good

A general narrative is emerging that international trade and cooperation are on the decline. Is it accurate?

Is Texas becoming too self-confident?

Texan rebellion is likely to shake up federal politics in the U.S.

Picking up the crypto pieces

Companies are on the lookout for opportunities during the crypto crash

From labor to exploitation: the dark side of blockchain games

What does it take to create a flourishing virtual economy?

Gen Z chooses anonymity over fame

Why are Gen Zers more likely to prefer online anonymity compared to millennials?

Resurrecting the dead in the digital era

Will deepfake videos, the latest and most versatile medium to eternalize the dead, impel us to regulate digital immortality?

Extending the self with Instagram's augmented-reality face filters

Are we moving towards a culture in which our digitally positioned self is more important than our actual self?