Research

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

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America’s renewed friendship with Saudi Arabia

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Is Wikipedia the Red Cross of the Infocalypse?

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Big Tech and the healthcare system

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China’s regional capitals

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Uncovering the mystery of sleep

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The U.S. trade war and the Asia-Pacific region

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Safety or privacy?

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Never waste a good waste crisis

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The rise of digital conglomerates

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Eco-conscious apparel is next in line to become hip

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A solid but sober EU

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The future of social media

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Are tech companies the next SIFI’s?

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When fake becomes the new normal

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Three degrees of radical innovation

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Beyond stereotypes of social class

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VR: a disruptive tool for changing behavior

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Imagining an African renaissance

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Italy’s new old politics

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Mapping economic complexity

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The return of hermeneutics

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The decline of face value

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Educating vital skills for the future

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Hegemonic Shift in 2017

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Maritime Arabia

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An Indo-Japanese partnership

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Generational amnesia

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Olympic hangovers

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Making America a 20th-century economy again?

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Speculation as a way to design the future

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