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

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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

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Biden’s America on the world stage

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How do we distil a good narrative from 2020?

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Does the future belong to Keynes and Mazzucato?

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Vaccine diplomacy

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Food security will have its moment on the world stage

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The Retroscope 2020

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Disinformation and the false believe we are autonomous in our search for knowledge

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The 'Brussels effect' on digital legislation

Europe is reinventing its digital Stack by taking the lead in legislation implementation

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The sound and cost of silence

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Transatlantic troubles

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Our image of Chinese power

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The coronavirus is creating momentum for fiscal diet policy

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Biden: neither friend nor foe to big tech

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The future of Trumpism

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Carbon border tax

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Trump is making opposition media great (the platform becomes the bubble)

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Are we sharing enough data?

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The sharing economy is dead, long live the rental economy

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The geopolitics of rare earth metals

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Human death as a boost for the use of ecological materials

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The sterile human and the biomedical disease model

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The not-so United States of America

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Who do we trust in the Stack war?

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?

Technology on a leash

By sharing ownership and control with producers and governments, our smart devices are no longer what they seem

Emerging markets face tough financial challenges

Will emerging markets' recovery be halted by increasing financial problems?

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.