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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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Got milk?
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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
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The weather is changing
What home insurance tells us about climate change
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The artisan versus the engineer: masters of the universe
What kind of skills should we (not) cultivate for generative AI?
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We are the products of technological mediation
What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI
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When images matter more than reality
A reflection on Vilém Flusser's philosophy of photography in the age of social media
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The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)
When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent
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Knit’s Island and the future of the metaverse
An immersive and fascinating documentary about life in a virtual world
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The robots among us
About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots
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The age of the machine: emancipation or alienation of the human?
Understanding the role of machines in society
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Short-sighted AI regulations miss the big picture
How can we ensure that AI is not only safe but also resonates with our broader norms and values?
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Philosophical prompt engineering in an AI-driven world
Why philosophical questioning and the art of posing the right questions becomes more important because of generative AI
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