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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?

The future of crypto is coming: what will it look like?

Regulation, decentralization and combined approaches battle for the crypto throne

China’s not-so-responsive authoritarianism

What the Zero-Covid strategy reveals about Chinese power dynamics

EU's digital strategy: where are we now and where do we go from here?

We should be strategic as we make strides toward digital sovereignty.

The short-lived revival of Keynes; welcome back, Hayek!

Has neoliberalism really left? Or was “COVID-Keynesianism” nothing more than a short-term crisis management tactic?

Can art and imagination spur climate action?

Exploring other ways to increase our moral judgement on climate change

Is artificial intelligence smart enough to create a sustainable future?

Despite a hefty ecological footprint of its own, digital technology has the potential to contribute to a more sustainable future.

Hungary’s continued development toward autocracy prompts challenges for the EU

How will having an “electoral autocracy” in their midst affect the EU's solidarity during crises and its normative power abroad?

The planet as an emerging category

On living with – not on – the planet.

A new dawn for nationalist parties?

For many, the brutal geopolitical awakening caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China threatening to invade Taiwan means freedom is back on the political agenda...

Vibegeist: rave until the grave

The revival of rave and rage in the roaring twenties.