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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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The hottest farmers' debate
On the power of Big Food over farmers
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Breaking the bottleneck
Can state-led initiatives relying on market mechanisms help us achieve our decarbonization goals?
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Are we heading towards post-human intelligence?
Rethinking being human in a more-than-human world
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Beyond planetary boundaries: towards Earth systems justice
Linking new developments in Earth systems research to the Deep Transitions Framework
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The future of inflation and interest rates
A long-term view on the drivers of inflation and monetary policy
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FreedomLab Selects: Rinus van de Velde — The Armchair Voyager
Vivian Elion analyses the surrealistic exhibition of Rinus van de Velde through the lens of metamodernism.
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Has AI become indistinguishable from life itself?
Developments in AI lead to new speculations about the role of technologies in the evolution of life.
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Romantic robots: a new love paradigm
Will our society's progressive values lead us to embrace a new romantic paradigm?
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Health is the luxury to fall sick and recover
Towards an enriched concept of the normal and the pathological
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ChatGPT and the place of the human being in an automated society
An unconventional reflection on Hannah Arendt’s philosophy
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