Research

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

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American soft power is under pressure

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Is the meme culture causing an increase in widespread stereotypes?

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The long hegemony of currency

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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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The automobile is on its way out

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After work thoughts

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My plant the therapist

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QAnon and knowledge

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Today’s class of uncontrollable technology

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Food nationalism

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Our post-corona relationship to nature

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Global value chains are experiencing a formative moment

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Wicked dilemmas and political decision-making

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Inequality kills

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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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Scenario thinking: embracing uncertainty

Will we soon let go of traditional forecasting in favor of multi-dimensional scenario thinking?

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The Dutch way of going circular

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Europe’s geopolitical strategy is a green strategy

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The (un)changing doctor-patient relationship

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Game engines are revolutionizing filmmaking

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Geopolitics of food

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Retroscope 2019: Disruption in the making

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Retroscope 2019: Hegemonic cycle

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Retroscope 2019: Socio-cultural

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Retroscope 2019: Technological cycle

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When we really become hybrid beings

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Pan-Africanism today

How the loneliness epidemic extends to the young and harms their wellbeing

Are we heading toward a future of artificial intimacy or a revival of real-world connection?

The Battle of Stacks (part 2)

A deep dive into the battle’s origins and the titans who shape it

The Battle of Stacks (part 1)

How digital superpowers redefine the political order

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