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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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The age of digital mega-ecosystems
Digital ecosystems have the potential to address consumer needs, but obstacles still exist in their implementation.
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Central banks rethink their purpose
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E-sports on steroids
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The end of the Fourth Hegemonic Cycle
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The future of globalization
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How to make the transition to a sustainable everyday life
Has the time come for personal carbon footprint calculators?
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A plant-centered view of the world
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Making sense of automation tax
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Limits to facial recognition
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The virtual of virtual reality
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Smart home care for our second adulthood
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Health concerns surrounding 5G
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Indian innovation
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The quiet Russian Resurgence
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The elemental evolution of media
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Every bit has a price
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The European Green Deal
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Revolutionaries between UFOs and raids
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Could we live without a job?
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Will new generations travel differently?
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Computers need a language for causal reasoning
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Will hiding the like button help Facebook?
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Visual search tools are building a bridge
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How digital technology will change our relationship to nature
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Looking for the long term
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Reinventing urban waterways
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Is Open Source AI a sham?
Why leading AI companies are currently engaging in both 'openwashing' and 'closedwashing' practices
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Post-growth: the dawn of a new era
What will the upcoming paradigm shift entail?
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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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