18.12.2019
“When it comes to China, we need to think bigger”

The world’s political order is in upheaval. Janka Oertel speaks about the 5G dispute and Germany’s role in formulating a new European China policy.

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16.08.2019
An Eco-Social Perspective on Transhumanism

Tracing the rise of transhumanism, the techno-utopian philosophy that provides no answer to social and environmental crisis.

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25.07.2019
Resisting Surveillance

The Harvard Business School Professor Emerita discusses the large-scale rollout of surveillance capitalism and the challenges this poses to democracy.

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22.07.2019
Do We Want to Advance Towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

In the first of a three-part series, we look at how blind optimism must be replaced by a societal debate in which technological advances are held accountable.

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12.04.2019
In Search of a Digital Arcadia

The internet of today is far from the digital promised land first imagined by cyber utopians. Geopolitics will play a defining role in shaping its future.

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13.03.2019
To 2049 and Beyond: A Future History of the Internet

The story of the next 30 years in cyberspace: reinventing privacy online, Digital Donor Cards and where next for the EU after GDPR.

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13.03.2019
Trading Places

On the paradigm shift that awaits, a common-sense approach to rebalancing the troubled structures of international trade in the global economy.

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07.03.2019
Horizon 2050: the Future of the EU-China Relationship

As part of the online series around our new edition, a sneak peak of what cooperation and rivalry between Europe and China could mean for the new global order in 2049.

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02.01.2019
A Green Angle on the Need for a Language Vault

2018 saw records of now-lost languages destroyed by fire in Brazil. Could a global vault prevent a similar disaster from happening again?

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19.09.2018
Hardwiring the Future: The Threat of Discrimination by Design

If new technologies are not regulated boldly, we could find ourselves in a technochauvinist dystopia.

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