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Modern Slavery in the Twenty-First Century

Is modern slavery surging, or just better counted? Inside the contested 49.6 million figure, forced-labour supply chains and the new trade crackdown.

Shenzhen, China: Electrifying the Megacity

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 10 In 2017, Shenzhen became the first city in the world to operate a fully electric public bus fleet. In...

World Environment Day 2026: Climate Action – Why It’s Still So Hard — and What Works

Clean energy is booming, yet emissions keep breaking records. A clear-eyed 2026 look at climate action—what's working, what's failing, and what it will take.

Barcelona Superblocks: The Radical Battle for Quiet, Green Cities

Inside Barcelona's radical push to reclaim streets from cars. How the superblock grid battles noise, heat, and tourism to recover Cerdà's vision.

The Mirror That Narrows: Predictive AI, Cognitive Monoculture, and the Ecology of Mind

In a quiet gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, a wall of text poses a number of questions that have haunted...

Doomscrolling, Inc.: Inside the Attention Industry’s Global Expansion—and How to Fight Back

As of November 2025, the world is at a critical inflection point in the attention economy: billions of users remain tethered to designed-to-be addictive...

AI Existential Risk: Why Tech Leaders Can’t Agree on Artificial Intelligence Safety

AI’s future splits: some predict utopia, others extinction. Tech leaders clash over safety, ethics, and control as harms already emerge.

The Philosophical Architecture of Cyberpunk: From Reagan-Era Anxieties to Posthuman Identity

Cyberpunk emerged as both a literary movement and philosophical intervention in early 1980s America, crystallizing anxieties about technology, consciousness, and corporate power into a...

Blockchain: The Transparent Revolution — Present Realities and Future Horizons

1. Introduction — The Genesis of a Trustless Architecture In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, trust in centralized intermediaries—banks, clearinghouses, rating agencies—shook to...

Rise of Symbolic Mediation and the Digital Mirror

In the glow of billions of screens, humanity gazes into what philosopher Sherry Turkle calls the "mirror of the machine."¹ Each swipe, click, and...

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