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

The planet as an emerging category

On living with – not on – the planet.

A new dawn for nationalist parties?

For many, the brutal geopolitical awakening caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China threatening to invade Taiwan means freedom is back on the political agenda...

Vibegeist: rave until the grave

The revival of rave and rage in the roaring twenties.

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.

"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.

To cyberspace and beyond

How the cyborg movies of the ‘90s made us fantasize about mind uploading, sentient AI and immortality.

How will the metaverse and web3 influence social media?

Brace yourself, the 2D newsfeeds gracing our screens might soon be part of internet history.

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.

The fragmentation of social media

When Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian are starting to revolt, you know Instagram is getting into trouble...

The early days of cyberpunk

As man becomes machine and machine becomes man.