# The future of money

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED@BCG Paris
- Speaker: Neha Narula
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science, Economics, Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/neha_narula_the_future_of_money)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

What happens when the way we buy, sell and pay for things changes, perhaps even removing the need for banks or currency exchange bureaus? That's the radical promise of a world powered by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. We're not there yet, but in this sparky talk, digital currency researcher Neha Narula describes the collective fiction of money -- and paints a picture of a very different looking future.

## Lectures

1. [The future of money](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/neha_narula_the_future_of_money/e032d8877f1e), 17 min (TED's player)