Research

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

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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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Central banks rethink their purpose

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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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How to make the transition to a sustainable everyday life

Has the time come for personal carbon footprint calculators?

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The future of globalization

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The end of the Fourth Hegemonic Cycle

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The virtual of virtual reality

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Limits to facial recognition

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Making sense of automation tax

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A plant-centered view of the world

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The quiet Russian Resurgence

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Indian innovation

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Health concerns surrounding 5G

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Smart home care for our second adulthood

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Revolutionaries between UFOs and raids

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The European Green Deal

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Every bit has a price

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The elemental evolution of media

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Will hiding the like button help Facebook?

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Computers need a language for causal reasoning

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Will new generations travel differently?

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Could we live without a job?

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Reinventing urban waterways

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Looking for the long term

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How digital technology will change our relationship to nature

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Visual search tools are building a bridge

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China’s digital platforms as a regional standard

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Biohacking diets

Pills, pills, pills

Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises

FreedomLab Selects: Metroid Prime Remastered

An adventurous and immersive journey to overcome an alienated world and yourself

Are weapons still a sin stock?

Changes in narratives, economic structures and the nature of technology could be altering the status of defense stock.

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