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America’s renewed friendship with Saudi Arabia
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Is Wikipedia the Red Cross of the Infocalypse?
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Big Tech and the healthcare system
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China’s regional capitals
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Uncovering the mystery of sleep
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The U.S. trade war and the Asia-Pacific region
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Safety or privacy?
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Never waste a good waste crisis
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The rise of digital conglomerates
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Eco-conscious apparel is next in line to become hip
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A solid but sober EU
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The future of social media
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Are tech companies the next SIFI’s?
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When fake becomes the new normal
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Three degrees of radical innovation
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Beyond stereotypes of social class
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VR: a disruptive tool for changing behavior
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Imagining an African renaissance
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Italy’s new old politics
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Mapping economic complexity
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The return of hermeneutics
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The decline of face value
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Educating vital skills for the future
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Hegemonic Shift in 2017
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Maritime Arabia
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An Indo-Japanese partnership
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Generational amnesia
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Olympic hangovers
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Making America a 20th-century economy again?
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Speculation as a way to design the future
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Pills, pills, pills
Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises
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FreedomLab Selects: Metroid Prime Remastered
An adventurous and immersive journey to overcome an alienated world and yourself
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Human sensors will feed the global mega machine
Intelligent systems will increasingly solicit our ‘help’ to gather data
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Are weapons still a sin stock?
Changes in narratives, economic structures and the nature of technology could be altering the status of defense stock.
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The return of the incumbent?
A reflection on the demise of Big Tech and the return of industrial incumbents
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Rediscovering the collective dimension of freedom
How the classic political philosophy of liberalism can broaden our individualistic interpretation of freedom.
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The case for climate radicalism
The impacts of climate change are increasingly being felt all across the globe.
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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.
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De-influencers or re-influencers?
Criticism of consumer society is of all ages, but now it’s coming from an unexpected corner.
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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
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