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Can digital technology save humanity?
How the Digital Revolution will change the rules of the game
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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 traffic light turns green for German digitalization
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China’s CBDC-as-a-standard?
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India’s rise as a digital superpower
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The emergence of big tech mesh networks
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Digital advertising in a post-cookie world
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Non-fungible tokens are all the rage
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Harvest now, decrypt later
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The unique strength of Chinese business alliances
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Democratization of finance
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Crowdsourcing morality for autonomous systems
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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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Biden: neither friend nor foe to big tech
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The geopolitics of rare earth metals
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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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Who do we trust in the stack war?
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The new power of technical standards
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Blurring boundaries with mixed reality toys
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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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Today’s class of uncontrollable technology
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Cell factories
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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.
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In the back end of our cities
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Game engines are revolutionizing filmmaking
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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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AI is life?
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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ChatGPT and the place of the human being in an automated society
An unconventional reflection on Hannah Arendt’s philosophy
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Learning to waste
All manufacturing produces waste, even the clean energy industry. Critical clean energy technologies – EV batteries, solar panels, wind turbine blades – lead to a massive problem with waste management
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Pills, pills, pills
Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises
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Human sensors will feed the global mega machine
Intelligent systems will increasingly solicit our ‘help’ to gather data
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The return of the incumbent?
A reflection on the demise of Big Tech and the return of industrial incumbents
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Is AI still artificial?
Definitions are becoming obsolete as tech and science blur the boundaries between the natural and the artificial
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Will generative AI favor the underdog?
The implications of generative AI for tech and talent
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