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Cryptocurrency and the Future Monetary System

Who will determine what you use as money in the future? In this video, Futurist Chris Crespo discusses how alternative forms of value are being captured and exchanged through distributed technology systems. The discussion goes beyond government issued currencies towards a potential future monetary system, where we may be able to choose which forms of “money” to transact in, based on currencies that more closely reflect the values we find important.

Smart Contracts, Blockchain and the Future of Trust

Would you live in a trustless society? We go our entire lives trusting people around us, often strangers who we’ve never dealt with before. But rarely do we stop to think why. In this video Futurist Chris Crespo unpacks the different ways in which trust has been outsourced from individuals to central institutions and increasingly more, over to technology. We may be moving towards a system where the need for trust enabling intermediaries like Central Banks and Governments will be replaced by computer code, but what tradeoffs would we need to make at a personal and societal level for this to come about?

EP#2 The Future of Credit Scoring

Could your Instagram account determine whether you are eligible for a mortgage? In this video, Futurist Chris Crespo discusses the changes in the way financial institutions assess your credit worthiness and how, as companies capture more and more data, your online and offline behaviour is being used to score far more than your ability to repay your loans.

EP#1 The Future of Banking

It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without banks. They show up in practically every important activity in our lives, and yet a horizon where traditional banks become obsolete is starting to take shape. In this video Futurist Chris Crespo discusses three trends that will make the 2030 banking landscape, unrecognisable.