Research

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

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Eurasian momentum

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One grid to rule them all

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What can the U.S. learn from European schools?

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Meaningful entertainment in the digital age

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Narrative of Big Tech

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Migration concentration

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Shadow power in the global technological arms race

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Fewer staff, more data

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Solar power nears terminal velocity

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A multipolar military world

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The CRISPR’d era

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Apple’s quest for the disappearing computer

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Deep transitions

Will we consider abandoning hyper productivity in favor of sustainability and equality?

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Disappearing rhythms

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A future-proof Dutch agrofood sector

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The shaky rise of digital gambling

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The selfish ledger

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The third urbanization wave

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Is Italy crossing the Rubicon?

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Who owns the data of the city?

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Dutch future welfare

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Schoolification

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Healthy infrastructure

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The API Economy

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Building memory in the information age

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Taking games to the cloud

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Mobility as a Service

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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The rise of midsized cities

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Marx in the 21st century

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

Human sensors will feed the global mega machine

Intelligent systems will increasingly solicit our ‘help’ to gather data

Are weapons still a sin stock?

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

The return of the incumbent?

A reflection on the demise of Big Tech and the return of industrial incumbents

Rediscovering the collective dimension of freedom

How the classic political philosophy of liberalism can broaden our individualistic interpretation of freedom.

The case for climate radicalism

The impacts of climate change are increasingly being felt all across the globe.

The Deep Transitions Framework; an elaboration

A theoretical and empirical elaboration on the Deep Transitions Framework, designed to contribute to a just, equitable and healthy planet.

De-influencers or re-influencers?

Criticism of consumer society is of all ages, but now it’s coming from an unexpected corner.

Sticky dependence: Europe’s reliance on Russia

Although Europe wants to decouple from Russia, our countries’ dependence is stickier and more complex than we might have estimated