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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
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The weather is changing
What home insurance tells us about climate change
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The artisan versus the engineer: masters of the universe
What kind of skills should we (not) cultivate for generative AI?
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We are the products of technological mediation
What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI
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When images matter more than reality
A reflection on Vilém Flusser's philosophy of photography in the age of social media
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The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)
When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent
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Knit’s Island and the future of the metaverse
An immersive and fascinating documentary about life in a virtual world
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The robots among us
About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots
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The age of the machine: emancipation or alienation of the human?
Understanding the role of machines in society
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The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse
About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals
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Philosophical prompt engineering in an AI-driven world
Why philosophical questioning and the art of posing the right questions becomes more important because of generative AI
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