More and more companies are designing their products in a way that they can create predictions from user data. It's nice when the products learn to fulfil our wishes even better - but it won't always be that nice, warns Shoshana Zuboff in her latest book.

Does Switzerland need sovereign money? What does the current popular initiative mean for our economic and monetary system? World-class financial experts discussed this issue at a GDI conference. You can now listen to two of them in our podcast.

Blockchain makes it possible to imagine a society that no longer requires central organisations, says GDI researcher Karin Stieger in her video looking ahead to the Blockchain Valley Conference 2017.