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The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse
About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals
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Degrowth will make us happier
Understanding wellbeing beyond economic growth
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How collective behavior change can foster a sustainable future
A dive into the heart of the degrowth movement
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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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Another piece on Barbenheimer
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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FreedomLab Selects: Rinus van de Velde — The Armchair Voyager
Vivian Elion analyses the surrealistic exhibition of Rinus van de Velde through the lens of metamodernism.
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Has AI become indistinguishable from life itself?
Developments in AI lead to new speculations about the role of technologies in the evolution of life.
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Romantic robots: a new love paradigm
Will our society's progressive values lead us to embrace a new romantic paradigm?
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Health is the luxury to fall sick and recover
Towards an enriched concept of the normal and the pathological
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ChatGPT and the place of the human being in an automated society
An unconventional reflection on Hannah Arendt’s philosophy
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Urban greening should focus on equity, not nature
The external valuation of nature in city planning could withhold green areas from becoming accessible to all
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Learning to waste
All manufacturing produces waste, even the clean energy industry. Critical clean energy technologies – EV batteries, solar panels, wind turbine blades – lead to a massive problem with waste management
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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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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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Human sensors will feed the global mega machine
Intelligent systems will increasingly solicit our ‘help’ to gather data
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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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The case for climate radicalism
The impacts of climate change are increasingly being felt all across the globe.
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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 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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The planet as an emerging category
On living with – not on – the planet.
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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...
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Vibegeist: rave until the grave
The revival of rave and rage in the roaring twenties.
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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.
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"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.
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To cyberspace and beyond
How the cyborg movies of the ‘90s made us fantasize about mind uploading, sentient AI and immortality.
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How will the metaverse and web3 influence social media?
Brace yourself, the 2D newsfeeds gracing our screens might soon be part of internet history.
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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.
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The fragmentation of social media
When Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian are starting to revolt, you know Instagram is getting into trouble...
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The early days of cyberpunk
As man becomes machine and machine becomes man.
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