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Will we consider abandoning hyper productivity in favor of sustainability and equality?
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Dutch future welfare
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Who owns the data of the city?
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Is Italy crossing the Rubicon?
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Barter 2.0
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Can E-learning bridge Africa’s education gap?
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Can Cuba be libre?
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Eastern European implosion
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The walls of the home are breaking down
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Will peace come to the Korean peninsula?
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Apple’s enduring quest for the disappearing computer
The next step into the era of spatial computing
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What would it take for us to believe in aliens?
Believing the unbelievable in times of disinformation and deepfakes
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The Indian Stack goes global
Is a decentralized, open-source Indian-European Stack emerging?
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On the cultural significance of summer blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer
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Will generative AI bring the productivity increases we need?
Information technology and the lack of corresponding increases in productivity
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The hottest farmers' debate
On the power of Big Food over farmers
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Breaking the bottleneck
Can state-led initiatives relying on market mechanisms help us achieve our decarbonization goals?
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Are we heading towards post-human intelligence?
Rethinking being human in a more-than-human world
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Beyond planetary boundaries: towards Earth systems justice
Linking new developments in Earth systems research to the Deep Transitions Framework
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The future of inflation and interest rates
A long-term view on the drivers of inflation and monetary policy
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