Research

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

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Eurasian momentum

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One grid to rule them all

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What can the U.S. learn from European schools?

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Meaningful entertainment in the digital age

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Narrative of Big Tech

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Migration concentration

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Shadow power in the global technological arms race

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Fewer staff, more data

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Solar power nears terminal velocity

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A multipolar military world

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The CRISPR’d era

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Apple’s quest for the disappearing computer

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Deep transitions

Will we consider abandoning hyper productivity in favor of sustainability and equality?

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Disappearing rhythms

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A future-proof Dutch agrofood sector

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The shaky rise of digital gambling

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The selfish ledger

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The third urbanization wave

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Is Italy crossing the Rubicon?

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Who owns the data of the city?

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Dutch future welfare

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Schoolification

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Healthy infrastructure

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The API Economy

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Building memory in the information age

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Taking games to the cloud

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Mobility as a Service

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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The rise of midsized cities

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Marx in the 21st century

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