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Hope and Fear: Questions on Innovation

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By Majlinda Bregu* I enter my hotel room in Brussels and a whole set of applications appears on the TV screen. I try to find “TV app”, just to listen to some news, while I keep scrolling uninterruptedly through mails, messages, WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram, on both of my mobiles. But the TV screen is like a digital room! I just want some news in the background, not a connection to NASA! Then I realize I can share my CNN app with TV so all is fine. Or it’s not. Once more I recall that unfortunately for me Yuval Harari is…

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