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How do we distil a good narrative from 2020?
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Biden’s America on the world stage
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The Retroscope 2020
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Transatlantic troubles
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The sound and cost of silence
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The 'Brussels effect' on digital legislation
Europe is reinventing its digital Stack by taking the lead in legislation implementation
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Disinformation and the false believe we are autonomous in our search for knowledge
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The coronavirus is creating momentum for fiscal diet policy
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Our image of Chinese power
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Trump is making opposition media great (the platform becomes the bubble)
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Carbon border tax
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The future of Trumpism
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Biden: neither friend nor foe to big tech
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The geopolitics of rare earth metals
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The sharing economy is dead, long live the rental economy
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Are we sharing enough data?
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Who do we trust in the Stack war?
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The not-so United States of America
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The sterile human and the biomedical disease model
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Human death as a boost for the use of ecological materials
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The outdoor economy
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Hollywood paves the way for diversity and representation
Will old mistakes continue to be made?
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The future of monetary policy and central banks
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The new power of technical standards
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Blurring boundaries with mixed reality toys
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The long hegemony of currency
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Is the meme culture causing an increase in widespread stereotypes?
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American soft power is under pressure
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My plant the therapist
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After work thoughts
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Who has to pay the costs of climate change?
Issuing appeals for hundreds of millions in emergency funding to help victims of climate change might soon be a standard procedure.
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"Creative" AI is recreating the creative industry
In the past few months, creative AI systems such as DALL-E and Midjourney have taken the internet by storm with their “artistic” creations.
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To cyberspace and beyond
How the cyborg movies of the ‘90s made us fantasize about mind uploading, sentient AI and immortality.
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How will the metaverse and web3 influence social media?
Brace yourself, the 2D newsfeeds gracing our screens might soon be part of internet history.
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Geopolitical nonalignment in the 21st century
Escalating tensions in Taiwan and Ukraine are pressuring the world to choose an alignment, yet many nations refuse to choose sides.
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The fragmentation of social media
When Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian are starting to revolt, you know Instagram is getting into trouble...
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The early days of cyberpunk
As man becomes machine and machine becomes man.
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The return of industrial policy
The Dutch government is rethinking industrial policy—more coordination is on the horizon.
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AI regulations may see a Beijing effect
Is Europe too late to cause a Brussels effect on AI technology?
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When the selfie becomes an avatar
How Instagram is preparing itself for the metaverse
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