Research

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

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Our uniform global diet

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The rise (and descent) of the vertical city

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Rise of online education in the corporate education sector

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European parties in search for voters

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From body positivity to body neutrality

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The coming together of the BRICS

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Populist puzzles

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Exporting surveillance

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Many silk connections

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Urban agriculture

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Human’s intangible stock of capital

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Will local-multiplayer survive in the video game industry?

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The sleeping Asian Tiger

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The intelligence of AI

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Germany’s growing realpolitik

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Technological momentum

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A new generation of American social democrats

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Mexico charts a new course

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Bullshit jobs in the digital age

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The bigger picture economy

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China’s financial reform

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The “good” consumer

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Arbitrary decisions

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Europe's innovation horizon

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A tale of two Indias

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Personalized competence-based learning

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Early celebrations in Turkey

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Emerging markets have their moment to shine

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Galactic hegemony

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China’s challenges towards semiconductor autonomy

Digital facts and objectivity in the 'TrustTech Stack' and network ontology

How can the Stack and Bruno Latour's network ontology help to give a more positive conception of the construction of digital facts and objectivity?

The quitters of open societies

What happens when we no longer play a common game

Is science to blame for post-truth politics?

How the left contributed to the deconstruction of truth

Perspectives on the post-truth era

The 'enshittification' of society

FreedomLab commemorates its 500th article with a retrospective of its publication history

The narratives struggling to define the impact of AI on the labor market

High expectations, disillusionment, and realism—the usual players in AI predictions are all present

Forget about the (human) parents

Meet the cyborgs

The enhanced human: stronger, better, happier

Why we might all become centaurs according to transhumanists

The deficient animal: artificial by nature

And why the idea of helpful AI agents might be a misleading, anthropocentric notion

Genuine writing in the digital age

An inconvenient effort worth pursuing