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

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China’s CBDC-as-a-standard?

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The future of the anti-establishment, conservative right

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Climate litigation and civil society

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What would a sufficiently sustainable ordinary life look like?

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A new narrative on climate change

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On the Chinese variety of capitalism

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How to deal with the medical uncertainty of Long COVID?

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India’s rise as a digital superpower

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On realizing we are not alone

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Judges break the unwritten rule of environmental agreements

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Winter is ending

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The G7 tax deal is all about American geo-economics

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We need more downward mobility

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The emergence of big tech mesh networks

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Lifestyle politics in the planetary age

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Elon Musk – What does his popularity tell us about 21st century leadership?

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Hegemonic shift makes the European Super League inevitable

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The not-so-bright future after the pandemic

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Building national character based on trauma

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The European deep transition strategy

The EU is leveraging the “Brussels Effect” to establish the metarules of the Second Deep Transition.

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Digital advertising in a post-cookie world

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Non-fungible tokens are all the rage

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Harvest now, decrypt later

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Will a post-corona era arrive in the coming years?

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The unique strength of Chinese business alliances

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Democratization of finance

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Crowdsourcing morality for autonomous systems

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Food security will have its moment on the world stage

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Vaccine diplomacy

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Does the future belong to Keynes and Mazzucato?

Could Europe fix the internet?

Europe aims to restore competitiveness and sovereignty in the digital realm through policies on data-sharing, AI, and open internet.

In the back end of our cities

Scenario thinking: embracing uncertainty

Will we soon let go of traditional forecasting in favor of multi-dimensional scenario thinking?

The Dutch way of going circular

Europe’s geopolitical strategy is a green strategy

The (un)changing doctor-patient relationship

Game engines are revolutionizing filmmaking

Geopolitics of food

Retroscope 2019: Technological cycle

Retroscope 2019: Socio-cultural