Money may well make world go round but cash is surely an encumbrance we can do without. What does a cashless society look like? What is the technology behind the digital economy and the new forms of currency and money?

Your bank doubtless provides an app for accessing your account but, in the future will it provide an API so you can write your own payment algorithms?

A lecture by Richard Harvey 26 May

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