Research

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

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One picture ≠ a thousand words

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Will the U.S. see a tidal wave of environmental regulations after 2020?

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Why is Maduro still in power in Venezuela?

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Demographics and hegemony

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The value of apocalyptic climate scenarios

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Who are the African youth?

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Breaking down data & AI silos

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The elastic generation

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The end of the pay-per-download era

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East Asia becomes the center of geopolitical competition

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Modern monetary policy

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Hegel and the unfolding idea of freedom in the 21st century

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Don Ihde and generational responses to digital technology

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Chinese philosopher Yuk Hui: "Technology has multiple futures"

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Reflecting on responsibility in AI with Daniel Dennett

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The codification of public policy

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Alternatives at the return of history

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Fleeing from the public squares of the internet

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Rocky road ahead for Europe despite disappointment by populists

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The carbon capture era

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Future leaders get a taste of new economics

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A democratic boost for Asia’s next growth engines

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Is EdTech addressing the demands of 21st century education?

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The higher purpose of motor sports

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Whistleblower platforms in the wake of Wikileaks’ demise

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The critical shaping moment of Lava Jato

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The emergence of the decentralized stack

Is the future open-source?

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Megablockbusters: A societal forum for the negotiation of social values

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Capitalists’ worries about capitalism

FreedomLab Selects: Rinus van de Velde — The Armchair Voyager

Vivian Elion analyses the surrealistic exhibition of Rinus van de Velde through the lens of metamodernism.

Has AI become indistinguishable from life itself?

Developments in AI lead to new speculations about the role of technologies in the evolution of life.

Romantic robots: a new love paradigm

Will our society's progressive values lead us to embrace a new romantic paradigm?

Health is the luxury to fall sick and recover

Towards an enriched concept of the normal and the pathological

ChatGPT and the place of the human being in an automated society

An unconventional reflection on Hannah Arendt’s philosophy

Urban greening should focus on equity, not nature

The external valuation of nature in city planning could withhold green areas from becoming accessible to all

Learning to waste

All manufacturing produces waste, even the clean energy industry. Critical clean energy technologies – EV batteries, solar panels, wind turbine blades – lead to a massive problem with waste management

Pills, pills, pills

Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises

FreedomLab Selects: Metroid Prime Remastered

An adventurous and immersive journey to overcome an alienated world and yourself

Are weapons still a sin stock?

Changes in narratives, economic structures and the nature of technology could be altering the status of defense stock.