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The view from above
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Speculation as a way to design the future
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Your diploma is OK, what are your skills?
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The bright side of cybercrime
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Europe’s resurging South
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We are running out of sand
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Asia’s next growth engines
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Data has a will of its own
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The future of human competences
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Unlocking the mind
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Breathing is the new smoking
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Our technological relation to nature
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The downside of radical tokenization
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Speculating through CES
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How autonomous vehicles will change our lives
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Who will be the 21st-century Henry Ford?
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The delivery economy
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China’s new green normal
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Where does content generation stop and technology begin?
How the verticalization of entertainment platforms is shaping the media landscape
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Shifts in the global food system
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Politics should focus more on the Good Life
How can we reinstate the concept of the Good without downplaying the systemic risks threatening our global society?
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The rise of CBDCs
Pim Korsten gives a rundown on the opportunities and risks of the rise of central bank digital currencies.
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What is Russia's view on climate change?
Melting ice caps in the Arctic are incentivizing Russia’s exploitation and extraction of natural resources representing the last straw of the Anthropocene.
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The energy transition is not a hobby
With the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, we have to face the fact that our dependence on fossil fuels poses a structural problem.
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Autocracy and the End of History
Is the ideological confrontation between the liberal-democratic and autocratic world order on its way to becoming the global political issue of our century?
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Russian digitalization through a Cosmist lens
To understand Russian politics, we need to understand Russian Cosmism, a philosophy that supports the digitalization of the Arctic.
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An introduction to the Stack
Learn more about our framework that helps us understand the anatomy of digital systems.
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Russia’s strategic exploitation of the Arctic
A long-standing resource-dependent economy, a melting Arctic, and technical capabilities have thrown the Arctic into the spotlight for Russia’s upcoming economic strategy.
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A beginner's guide to the metaverse
Both praised and feared by many, the 'promises' of the metaverse are highly contentious. Sebastiaan Crul aims to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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A cultural cluster bomb
What will be the lasting impact of the cancellation of Russia?
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