Research

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

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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

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America’s renewed friendship with Saudi Arabia

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Is Wikipedia the Red Cross of the Infocalypse?

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Big Tech and the healthcare system

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China’s regional capitals

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Uncovering the mystery of sleep

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The U.S. trade war and the Asia-Pacific region

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Safety or privacy?

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Never waste a good waste crisis

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The rise of digital conglomerates

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Eco-conscious apparel is next in line to become hip

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A solid but sober EU

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The future of social media

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Are tech companies the next SIFI’s?

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When fake becomes the new normal

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Three degrees of radical innovation

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Beyond stereotypes of social class

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VR: a disruptive tool for changing behavior

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Imagining an African renaissance

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Italy’s new old politics

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Mapping economic complexity

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The return of hermeneutics

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The decline of face value

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Educating vital skills for the future

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

Pills, pills, pills

Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises

FreedomLab Selects: Metroid Prime Remastered

An adventurous and immersive journey to overcome an alienated world and yourself

Human sensors will feed the global mega machine

Intelligent systems will increasingly solicit our ‘help’ to gather data