Research

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

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The revival of the Rhine Model for digital capitalism

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What is the impact of mindfulness on society?

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How China sees Hong Kong

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Building bridges to the crypto space

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Generation Alpha

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Zeroing in on 0.0% beers

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The rise of the Asian Aerotropolis

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Online language is better language

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Natural elements become critical resources

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The dominance of movie franchises

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Apple’s silent transition into the next computing paradigm

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The European Stack is taking shape

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The plant-based protein transition

What fundamental factors are causing and fueling the transition?

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Will climate engineering save the planet?

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Multilateralism and the decline of the U.S. hegemony

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Worker rights, a new frontier for reducing U.S. inequality?

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The quest for autonomy in the digital age

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Gen Z in the generational cycle

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Japan, Korea and the global semiconductor industry

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Reality is holding back self-driving cars

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The depth of deep ecology

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The internet of thoughts

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A phronetic approach to healthcare

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Healthcare in the 2020 U.S. elections

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The ambiguity of self-tracking for health

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Precautionary screening for the masses?

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The French Renaissance

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Will China become a sustainability leader?

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New hope for the liberal world order?

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Our cities as AR gaming arenas

Digital facts and objectivity in the 'TrustTech Stack' and network ontology

How can the Stack and Bruno Latour's network ontology help to give a more positive conception of the construction of digital facts and objectivity?

The quitters of open societies

What happens when we no longer play a common game

Is science to blame for post-truth politics?

How the left contributed to the deconstruction of truth

Perspectives on the post-truth era

The 'enshittification' of society

FreedomLab commemorates its 500th article with a retrospective of its publication history

The narratives struggling to define the impact of AI on the labor market

High expectations, disillusionment, and realism—the usual players in AI predictions are all present

Forget about the (human) parents

Meet the cyborgs

The enhanced human: stronger, better, happier

Why we might all become centaurs according to transhumanists

The deficient animal: artificial by nature

And why the idea of helpful AI agents might be a misleading, anthropocentric notion

Genuine writing in the digital age

An inconvenient effort worth pursuing