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When the selfie becomes an avatar

How Instagram is preparing itself for the metaverse

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Venetian, young and farming: three lessons from the new generation of Italian farmers on agri-food sustainability

Julia Rijssenbeek and Maya Turolla turn the spotlight on young farmers championing the transition to sustainable food systems.

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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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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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Resisting the green gold

Deconstructing my purchasing choices: why is it so hard to change behavior?

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How the cyborg deconstructed the modern worldview

The evolution of the cyborg in science and popular culture

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Religion and spirituality after the death of God

Secularism could lead to moral and spiritual nihilism that Nietzsche and Dostoevsky warn of. What are the socio-cultural consequences of this?

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Can digital technology save humanity?

How the Digital Revolution will change the rules of the game

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Does the future belong to Keynes and Mazzucato?

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How do we distil a good narrative from 2020?

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The Retroscope 2020

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The 'Brussels effect' on digital legislation

Europe is reinventing its digital Stack by taking the lead in legislation implementation

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Disinformation and the false believe we are autonomous in our search for knowledge

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The future of Trumpism

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Biden: neither friend nor foe to big tech

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The sharing economy is dead, long live the rental economy

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Are we sharing enough data?

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The sterile human and the biomedical disease model

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Human death as a boost for the use of ecological materials

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The future of monetary policy and central banks

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Is the meme culture causing an increase in widespread stereotypes?

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American soft power is under pressure

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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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Our post-corona relationship to nature

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Wicked dilemmas and political decision-making

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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.

The AI chips race

How AI chips will determine future geopolitical events

The internet is in need of a transition

What the internet can learn from ongoing transitions in energy, mobility and food

Is Open Source AI a sham?

Why leading AI companies are currently engaging in both 'openwashing' and 'closedwashing' practices

Post-growth: the dawn of a new era

What will the upcoming paradigm shift entail?

The artisan versus the engineer: masters of the universe

What kind of skills should we (not) cultivate for generative AI?

We are the products of technological mediation

What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI

When images matter more than reality

A reflection on Vilém Flusser's philosophy of photography in the age of social media

The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)

When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent

The robots among us

About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots

The age of the machine: emancipation or alienation of the human?

Understanding the role of machines in society

Research

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