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Food security will have its moment on the world stage
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Vaccine diplomacy
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Does the future belong to Keynes and Mazzucato?
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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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The weather is changing
What home insurance tells us about climate change
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The artisan versus the engineer: masters of the universe
What kind of skills should we (not) cultivate for generative AI?
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We are the products of technological mediation
What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI
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When images matter more than reality
A reflection on Vilém Flusser's philosophy of photography in the age of social media
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The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)
When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent
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Knit’s Island and the future of the metaverse
An immersive and fascinating documentary about life in a virtual world
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The robots among us
About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots
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The age of the machine: emancipation or alienation of the human?
Understanding the role of machines in society
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Short-sighted AI regulations miss the big picture
How can we ensure that AI is not only safe but also resonates with our broader norms and values?
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Philosophical prompt engineering in an AI-driven world
Why philosophical questioning and the art of posing the right questions becomes more important because of generative AI
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