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Sports wearables: When the amateur goes pro
The widespread use of performance-tracking technologies has changed the practice of sports
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Feeding the dragon
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Inequality in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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Netflix’s Bandersnatch: the beginning of embedded content interfaces
Netflix's interactive film 'Bandersnatch' could set the trend for embedded content interfaces in films and shows.
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Farming in the Anthropocene by improving photosynthesis
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Managing your digital identity
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Volatility in the Tech Stack
A closer look at the fundamental trajectories and interdependent nature of new technologies
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Signs of a next green revolution
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Retroscope 2018: Technological cycle
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Retroscope 2018: Hegemonic cycle
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Retroscope 2018: Socio-cultural
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Retroscope 2018: Disruption in the making
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Peak social
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Open-source software is eating the world
Open-source software is crucial in our daily lives, and recent acquisitions of GitHub and Red Hat highlight its importance.
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The protein folding revolution
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Accounting for natural capital
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Open data empowerment
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Our polygenic scores tell us who we are
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City region foodscapes
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Fighting terrorism has been a recurring issue in the history of Europe
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Our diverging responses to climate change
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From bits to atoms
Will platforms like Uber and Airbnb continue to succeed without physical assets?
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Divided Brazil will be urged to look inwards
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A return to utopian thinking
In the last decade, pragmatic utopian thinking has gained considerable popularity in different domains.
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The age of genetic information
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Google predicts a rising Chinese internet
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In search of a narrative for Europe
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Food is the key to achieving Sustainable Development Goals
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Facebook’s flirt with crypto and blockchain
Will Big Tech companies like Facebook have a role in the crypto landscape?
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Our uniform global diet
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Emerging markets face tough financial challenges
Will emerging markets' recovery be halted by increasing financial problems?
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Technology on a leash
By sharing ownership and control with producers and governments, our smart devices are no longer what they seem
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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