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The AI chips race
How AI chips will determine future geopolitical events
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Technology
The internet is in need of a transition
What the internet can learn from ongoing transitions in energy, mobility and food
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Is Open Source AI a sham?
Why leading AI companies are currently engaging in both 'openwashing' and 'closedwashing' practices
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The artisan versus the engineer: masters of the universe
What kind of skills should we (not) cultivate for generative AI?
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We are the products of technological mediation
What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI
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The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)
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
An immersive and fascinating documentary about life in a virtual world
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The robots among us
About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots
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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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Short-sighted AI regulations miss the big picture
How can we ensure that AI is not only safe but also resonates with our broader norms and values?
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Philosophical prompt engineering in an AI-driven world
Why philosophical questioning and the art of posing the right questions becomes more important because of generative AI
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The enduring tool metaphor in AI discourse
About technology as a mere instrument to achieve human goals
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Apple’s enduring quest for the disappearing computer
The next step into the era of spatial computing
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The Indian Stack goes global
Is a decentralized, open-source Indian-European Stack emerging?
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Will generative AI bring the productivity increases we need?
Information technology and the lack of corresponding increases in productivity
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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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Has AI become indistinguishable from life itself?
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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The future of crypto is coming: what will it look like?
Regulation, decentralization and combined approaches battle for the crypto throne
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EU's digital strategy: where are we now and where do we go from here?
We should be strategic as we make strides toward digital sovereignty.
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Is artificial intelligence smart enough to create a sustainable future?
Despite a hefty ecological footprint of its own, digital technology has the potential to contribute to a more sustainable future.
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"Creative" AI is recreating the creative industry
In the past few months, creative AI systems such as DALL-E and Midjourney have taken the internet by storm with their “artistic” creations.
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How will the metaverse and web3 influence social media?
Brace yourself, the 2D newsfeeds gracing our screens might soon be part of internet history.
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-minute read
The AI chips race
How AI chips will determine future geopolitical events
9
-minute read
The internet is in need of a transition
What the internet can learn from ongoing transitions in energy, mobility and food
12
-minute read
Is Open Source AI a sham?
Why leading AI companies are currently engaging in both 'openwashing' and 'closedwashing' practices
12
-minute read
The artisan versus the engineer: masters of the universe
What kind of skills should we (not) cultivate for generative AI?
8
-minute read
We are the products of technological mediation
What the metaphor of the 'medium' can teach us about AI
13
-minute read
The day the artificial became intelligent (is yet to come)
When we started to call intelligence a machine and the machine intelligent
5
-minute read
Knit’s Island and the future of the metaverse
An immersive and fascinating documentary about life in a virtual world
10
-minute read
The robots among us
About today’s master-slave dynamics with humanoids and chatbots
10
-minute read
The age of the machine: emancipation or alienation of the human?
Understanding the role of machines in society
5
-minute read
Short-sighted AI regulations miss the big picture
How can we ensure that AI is not only safe but also resonates with our broader norms and values?
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