Paying for a coffee or lunch by simply scanning your palm still sounds like science fiction to most of us. However, an engineering student at Lund University in Sweden has made it happen – making his the first known company in the world to install the vein scanning technique in...
Anton Blidhem. student at Lund University School of Economics and Management 2014 So, let’s cut to the chase. Is bitcoin going to be the new ‘world currency’ that economist Gustav Cassel foresaw on his deathbed? Probably not. The currency is considered by many to be too volatile to be used...
Jerker Holm, Professor of Economics, Lund University How do you think the bitcoins system will develop in the future and what significance could it have? “There is a lot of enthusiasm about bitcoins in some quarters today. This is probably due in part to the revelation that the NSA can...
Opinion: Max Åhman, Senior researcher, Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, Lund University 2014 After 40 years of experimentation, the next 10 years could be the breakthrough for sustainable transport, but more and better understanding of the systemic barriers for a sustainable transition is still needed. Modern society is dependent on...
While poverty is a prioritised goal in the EU, in Sweden it is politically dead. The parties are agreed on the work-first principle and no one is pursuing issues of marginalisation – despite the increasing gaps in income. Is this because the climate in society has become less empathic or...
