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Why is Maduro still in power in Venezuela?
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Demographics and hegemony
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The value of apocalyptic climate scenarios
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Gen AI
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Who are the African youth?
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Breaking down data & AI silos
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The elastic generation
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The end of the pay-per-download era
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East Asia becomes the center of geopolitical competition
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Modern monetary policy
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Hegel and the unfolding idea of freedom in the 21st century
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Don Ihde and generational responses to digital technology
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Chinese philosopher Yuk Hui: "Technology has multiple futures"
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Reflecting on responsibility in AI with Daniel Dennett
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The codification of public policy
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Alternatives at the return of history
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Fleeing from the public squares of the internet
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Rocky road ahead for Europe despite disappointment by populists
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The carbon capture era
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Future leaders get a taste of new economics
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A democratic boost for Asia’s next growth engines
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Is EdTech addressing the demands of 21st century education?
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The higher purpose of motor sports
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Whistleblower platforms in the wake of Wikileaks’ demise
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The critical shaping moment of Lava Jato
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The emergence of the decentralized stack
Is the future open-source?
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Megablockbusters: A societal forum for the negotiation of social values
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Capitalists’ worries about capitalism
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Sustainable by default
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The dilemma of future sports regulation
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Romantic robots: a new love paradigm
Will our society's progressive values lead us to embrace a new romantic paradigm?
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Health is the luxury to fall sick and recover
Towards an enriched concept of the normal and the pathological
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ChatGPT and the place of the human being in an automated society
An unconventional reflection on Hannah Arendt’s philosophy
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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
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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
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Pills, pills, pills
Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises
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FreedomLab Selects: Metroid Prime Remastered
An adventurous and immersive journey to overcome an alienated world and yourself
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Are weapons still a sin stock?
Changes in narratives, economic structures and the nature of technology could be altering the status of defense stock.
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Human sensors will feed the global mega machine
Intelligent systems will increasingly solicit our ‘help’ to gather data
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The return of the incumbent?
A reflection on the demise of Big Tech and the return of industrial incumbents
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