Research

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

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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

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Sustainable by default

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The dilemma of future sports regulation

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Spain has proven to be far from immune to the populist wave sweeping across Europe

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Is TikTok a vector for Chinese ideals?

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To measure someone is to know someone

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The social promise of augmented reality

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Can’t live with social media, can’t live without it

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The Arctic through the eyes of Greenland

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Sustainable minerals for sustainable technology

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Africa is set to become world’s largest free trade area

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Illegal streaming holds the media industry in check

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Contemporary spirituality is all about the self

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The Dragon and the Elephant in the 21st century

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The Africa Stack

The African continent might be leapfrogging into the digital economy

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Can algorithms be neutral?

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Where architecture and IT meet

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21st century Luddites target self-driving cars

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Scaling bitcoin with the lightning network

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The future of Europe from an Asian perspective

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The evolving landscape of consumer trust

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Populism and the shifting climate change debate

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Geopolitics of aid and development cooperation

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Particularly deadly matter

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The VAR system and the datafication of everyday life

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Facebook’s strategy for a decentralized future

Will Facebook orchestrate its own disruption?

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Slowing down fast fashion

Digital facts and objectivity in the 'TrustTech Stack' and network ontology

How can the Stack and Bruno Latour's network ontology help to give a more positive conception of the construction of digital facts and objectivity?

The quitters of open societies

What happens when we no longer play a common game

Is science to blame for post-truth politics?

How the left contributed to the deconstruction of truth

Perspectives on the post-truth era

The 'enshittification' of society

FreedomLab commemorates its 500th article with a retrospective of its publication history

The narratives struggling to define the impact of AI on the labor market

High expectations, disillusionment, and realism—the usual players in AI predictions are all present

Forget about the (human) parents

Meet the cyborgs

The enhanced human: stronger, better, happier

Why we might all become centaurs according to transhumanists

The deficient animal: artificial by nature

And why the idea of helpful AI agents might be a misleading, anthropocentric notion

Genuine writing in the digital age

An inconvenient effort worth pursuing