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When the selfie becomes an avatar
How Instagram is preparing itself for the metaverse
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Is Texas becoming too self-confident?
Texan rebellion is likely to shake up federal politics in the U.S.
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Gen Z chooses anonymity over fame
Why are Gen Zers more likely to prefer online anonymity compared to millennials?
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Resurrecting the dead in the digital era
Will deepfake videos, the latest and most versatile medium to eternalize the dead, impel us to regulate digital immortality?
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Politics should focus more on the Good Life
How can we reinstate the concept of the Good without downplaying the systemic risks threatening our global society?
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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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Can digital technology save humanity?
How the Digital Revolution will change the rules of the game
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Feel-good philanthropy
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Will the metaverse be a “pornoverse”?
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What to think of the Corona Pass?
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The future of the anti-establishment, conservative right
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Climate litigation and civil society
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What would a sufficiently sustainable ordinary life look like?
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On realizing we are not alone
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We need more downward mobility
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Will a post-corona era arrive in the coming years?
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Vaccine diplomacy
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How do we distil a good narrative from 2020?
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The Retroscope 2020
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Disinformation and the false believe we are autonomous in our search for knowledge
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Human death as a boost for the use of ecological materials
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QAnon and knowledge
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Our post-corona relationship to nature
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Wicked dilemmas and political decision-making
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Inequality kills
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Scenario thinking: embracing uncertainty
Will we soon let go of traditional forecasting in favor of multi-dimensional scenario thinking?
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The (un)changing doctor-patient relationship
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Retroscope 2019: Socio-cultural
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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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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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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
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The robots among us
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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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The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse
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