No pricing, no cash: this could be the future of shopping. You can already see it in the "Weekend Supermarket", the first flatrate supermarket in Vienna, Austria. By paying 9.90 per month you can take goods worth up to 300 euros - and must be willing to disclose personal information.

Our smartphone becomes a wallet with which one can send money via SMS. Even currencies arise from algorithms: The financial industry is facing a radical change. Will banks become superfluous? In the city council in the Swiss city of Zug has been running an experiment since 2016: for certain services, it is now possible to pay with bitcoins. The digital currency is thus entering the state and gradually losing its image as the preferred means of payment for computer nerds and criminals. So, is Bitcoin and other digital currencies actually an alternative to our monetary policy?