Contents - Editorial

The chip in the eye Reto Weiler

Hope visual prosthesis Josef Ammermüller

Turbulence on the financial market Joachim Reinke, Malte Seifert, Frank Böttcher, Rudolf Friedrich

Is our democracy too expensive? Karl-Heinz-Naßmacher

Environmental models: What future is possible? Michael Sonnenschein, Hans-Peter Bäume, Claudia Kemfert, Michael Kleber, Michael Rudner

Focus Important news from the university and the university society