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The automobile is on its way out
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The resistance to the hegemony of the App Store
As emerging tech companies become more influential their relationships with big tech are increasingly strained
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QAnon and knowledge
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Today’s class of uncontrollable technology
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Cell factories
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Food nationalism
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Our post-corona relationship to nature
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Wicked dilemmas and political decision-making
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Global value chains are experiencing a formative moment
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Inequality kills
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Could Europe fix the internet?
Europe aims to restore competitiveness and sovereignty in the digital realm through policies on data-sharing, AI, and open internet.
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In the back end of our cities
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Scenario thinking: embracing uncertainty
Will we soon let go of traditional forecasting in favor of multi-dimensional scenario thinking?
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The Dutch way of going circular
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Europe’s geopolitical strategy is a green strategy
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The (un)changing doctor-patient relationship
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Game engines are revolutionizing filmmaking
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Geopolitics of food
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Retroscope 2019: Technological cycle
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Retroscope 2019: Socio-cultural
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Retroscope 2019: Hegemonic cycle
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Retroscope 2019: Disruption in the making
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When we really become hybrid beings
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Interactive elements in movies and series
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Pan-Africanism today
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Gut feeling and the future of nutrigenomics
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Horror in times of uncertainty
Horror movies allow us to safely explore extreme scenarios... what do they tell us about our current fears?
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Are we facing limits to growth?
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Everybody is a self-tracker
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E-sports on steroids
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Politics should focus more on the Good Life
How can we reinstate the concept of the Good without downplaying the systemic risks threatening our global society?
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The rise of CBDCs
Pim Korsten gives a rundown on the opportunities and risks of the rise of central bank digital currencies.
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What is Russia's view on climate change?
Melting ice caps in the Arctic are incentivizing Russia’s exploitation and extraction of natural resources representing the last straw of the Anthropocene.
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The energy transition is not a hobby
With the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, we have to face the fact that our dependence on fossil fuels poses a structural problem.
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Autocracy and the End of History
Is the ideological confrontation between the liberal-democratic and autocratic world order on its way to becoming the global political issue of our century?
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Russian digitalization through a Cosmist lens
To understand Russian politics, we need to understand Russian Cosmism, a philosophy that supports the digitalization of the Arctic.
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An introduction to the Stack
Learn more about our framework that helps us understand the anatomy of digital systems.
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Russia’s strategic exploitation of the Arctic
A long-standing resource-dependent economy, a melting Arctic, and technical capabilities have thrown the Arctic into the spotlight for Russia’s upcoming economic strategy.
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A beginner's guide to the metaverse
Both praised and feared by many, the 'promises' of the metaverse are highly contentious. Sebastiaan Crul aims to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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A cultural cluster bomb
What will be the lasting impact of the cancellation of Russia?
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