Research

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

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Netflix’s Bandersnatch: the beginning of embedded content interfaces

Netflix's interactive film 'Bandersnatch' could set the trend for embedded content interfaces in films and shows.

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Farming in the Anthropocene by improving photosynthesis

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Managing your digital identity

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Volatility in the Tech Stack

A closer look at the fundamental trajectories and interdependent nature of new technologies

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Signs of a next green revolution

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Retroscope 2018: Technological cycle

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Retroscope 2018: Hegemonic cycle

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Retroscope 2018: Socio-cultural

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Retroscope 2018: Disruption in the making

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Open-source software is eating the world

Open-source software is crucial in our daily lives, and recent acquisitions of GitHub and Red Hat highlight its importance.

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The protein folding revolution

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Accounting for natural capital

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Open data empowerment

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Our polygenic scores tell us who we are

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City region foodscapes

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Fighting terrorism has been a recurring issue in the history of Europe

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Our diverging responses to climate change

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From bits to atoms

Will platforms like Uber and Airbnb continue to succeed without physical assets?

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Divided Brazil will be urged to look inwards

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A return to utopian thinking

In the last decade, pragmatic utopian thinking has gained considerable popularity in different domains.

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The age of genetic information

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Google predicts a rising Chinese internet

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In search of a narrative for Europe

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Food is the key to achieving Sustainable Development Goals

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Facebook’s flirt with crypto and blockchain

Will Big Tech companies like Facebook have a role in the crypto landscape?

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Our uniform global diet

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Technical hurdles towards the cryptoworld

Arief Hühn outlines possible solutions to the current limitations of the crypto world.

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Apple’s quest for the disappearing computer

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The CRISPR’d era

Politics should focus more on the Good Life

How can we reinstate the concept of the Good without downplaying the systemic risks threatening our global society?

The rise of CBDCs

Pim Korsten gives a rundown on the opportunities and risks of the rise of central bank digital currencies.

What is Russia's view on climate change?

Melting ice caps in the Arctic are incentivizing Russia’s exploitation and extraction of natural resources representing the last straw of the Anthropocene.

The energy transition is not a hobby

With the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, we have to face the fact that our dependence on fossil fuels poses a structural problem.

Autocracy and the End of History

Is the ideological confrontation between the liberal-democratic and autocratic world order on its way to becoming the global political issue of our century?

Russian digitalization through a Cosmist lens

To understand Russian politics, we need to understand Russian Cosmism, a philosophy that supports the digitalization of the Arctic.

An introduction to the Stack

Learn more about our framework that helps us understand the anatomy of digital systems.

Russia’s strategic exploitation of the Arctic

A long-standing resource-dependent economy, a melting Arctic, and technical capabilities have thrown the Arctic into the spotlight for Russia’s upcoming economic strategy.

A beginner's guide to the metaverse

Both praised and feared by many, the 'promises' of the metaverse are highly contentious. Sebastiaan Crul aims to separate the wheat from the chaff.

A cultural cluster bomb

What will be the lasting impact of the cancellation of Russia?