Research

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

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How do we distil a good narrative from 2020?

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Biden’s America on the world stage

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The Retroscope 2020

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Transatlantic troubles

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The sound and cost of silence

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The 'Brussels effect' on digital legislation

Europe is reinventing its digital Stack by taking the lead in legislation implementation

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Disinformation and the false believe we are autonomous in our search for knowledge

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The coronavirus is creating momentum for fiscal diet policy

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Our image of Chinese power

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Trump is making opposition media great (the platform becomes the bubble)

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Carbon border tax

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The future of Trumpism

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Biden: neither friend nor foe to big tech

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The geopolitics of rare earth metals

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The sharing economy is dead, long live the rental economy

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Are we sharing enough data?

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Who do we trust in the Stack war?

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The not-so United States of America

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The sterile human and the biomedical disease model

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Human death as a boost for the use of ecological materials

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The outdoor economy

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Hollywood paves the way for diversity and representation

Will old mistakes continue to be made?

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The future of monetary policy and central banks

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The new power of technical standards

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Blurring boundaries with mixed reality toys

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The long hegemony of currency

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Is the meme culture causing an increase in widespread stereotypes?

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American soft power is under pressure

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My plant the therapist

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After work thoughts

Human sensors will feed the global mega machine

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

The return of the incumbent?

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

The case for climate radicalism

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

Rediscovering the collective dimension of freedom

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

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

How Weirdcore and Y2K aesthetics took over TikTok in times of despair

What style reveals regarding playful nihilism, emotional spending, and dread

Is AI still artificial?

Definitions are becoming obsolete as tech and science blur the boundaries between the natural and the artificial

Will generative AI favor the underdog?

The implications of generative AI for tech and talent