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

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How a decline in trust can be a driver for new political leadership

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The traffic light turns green for German digitalization

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The ‘Wechselstimmung’ after Merkel

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The future of the anti-establishment, conservative right

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China’s CBDC-as-a-standard?

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A new narrative on climate change

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What would a sufficiently sustainable ordinary life look like?

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Climate litigation and civil society

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How to deal with the medical uncertainty of Long COVID?

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On the Chinese variety of capitalism

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On realizing we are not alone

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India’s rise as a digital superpower

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Winter is ending

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Judges break the unwritten rule of environmental agreements

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We need more downward mobility

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The G7 tax deal is all about American geo-economics

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Lifestyle politics in the planetary age

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The emergence of big tech mesh networks

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Hegemonic shift makes the European Super League inevitable

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Elon Musk – What does his popularity tell us about 21st century leadership?

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Building national character based on trauma

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The not-so-bright future after the pandemic

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Digital advertising in a post-cookie world

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The European deep transition strategy

The EU is leveraging the “Brussels Effect” to establish the metarules of the Second Deep Transition.

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Harvest now, decrypt later

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Non-fungible tokens are all the rage

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The unique strength of Chinese business alliances

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Will a post-corona era arrive in the coming years?

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Crowdsourcing morality for autonomous systems

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Democratization of finance

Digital facts and objectivity in the 'TrustTech Stack' and network ontology

How can the Stack and Bruno Latour's network ontology help to give a more positive conception of the construction of digital facts and objectivity?

The quitters of open societies

What happens when we no longer play a common game

Is science to blame for post-truth politics?

How the left contributed to the deconstruction of truth

Perspectives on the post-truth era

The 'enshittification' of society

FreedomLab commemorates its 500th article with a retrospective of its publication history

The narratives struggling to define the impact of AI on the labor market

High expectations, disillusionment, and realism—the usual players in AI predictions are all present

Forget about the (human) parents

Meet the cyborgs

The enhanced human: stronger, better, happier

Why we might all become centaurs according to transhumanists

The deficient animal: artificial by nature

And why the idea of helpful AI agents might be a misleading, anthropocentric notion

Genuine writing in the digital age

An inconvenient effort worth pursuing