Gen Z and the Gig Economy: Flexibility or Financial Uncertainty?
The gig economy is transforming how Generation Z enters the workforce, offering flexibility, independence, and global opportunities through digital platforms. At the same time, it raises important questions about job security, social protections, and the future structure of employment.
Scrolling Past Each Other: The Slow Death of Empathy
You open social media and start scrolling through stories. The first story is a friend’s vacation photo. The next one shows a natural disaster somewhere in the world. Then you stumble upon footage from a war zone, genocide, and many dead bodies. Before you even have time to process what you just saw, the next post appears, and you see another joke, meme, or an ordinary moment from someone’s day.
Al and the Future of Work: Replacement or Reinvention
Artificial intelligence is often imagined as a thinking machine, but in reality it is far closer to a powerful pattern-recognition tool trained on vast amounts of data. While many fear that AI will replace human work entirely, history suggests that new technologies usually transform jobs rather than eliminate them. Machines may excel at speed and analysis, yet qualities such as empathy, moral judgment, and lived experience remain uniquely human. The real challenge, therefore, is not whether AI will shape our future, but how we choose to use it.
Anemoia: nostalgia for the past or a cry for help?
Recently, it has become a common trend for teenagers to reminisce about how great it would be to live in a different time period. What has caused this feeling, and why? Might it be that the more times change, the more we wish to return to the past?
We Can’t All Be CEOs
With the European Commission proposing a new EU-wide framework to make it easier to start companies, entrepreneurship is becoming not just a trend, but a policy direction. Yet as more young people turn toward self-employment and startup culture, an important question emerges: what happens to the jobs that keep society functioning?
ASML: The Backbone of the Microchip Industry
Smartphones, cars, satellites, modern war drones (UAVs) – all of them run on microchips. But behind every advanced microchip lies a highly complex EUV lithography machine that prints patterns 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. These extraordinary game-changing machines are designed and manufactured exclusively by ASML.
The Rise of the “Instagram Face”: When Beauty Becomes a Template
Scroll through Instagram long enough and the faces begin to blur together. The same lips, the same cheekbones, the same sculpted jawline. In the age of the “Instagram face,” beauty is no longer about individuality — it’s about fitting the algorithm.
Is This AI or Not? Guess.
Time to test your detective skills. Observe the image carefully. Can you guess whether it was taken by a camera or generated by artificial intelligence?
Your phone now takes worse photos. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
Your shots look different now. There's a good reason behind that.
