Electric Money (2001)

Host Bob Cringely tells the story of the invention of the credit card and how it has evolved into the trillion-dollar-a-year business it is today. "Electric Money" also examines how information technology expanded futures, options, and stock trading. Meet the radical visionaries, innovators and entrepreneurs who - often against great resistance - brought information technology to the world of finance, changing forever the way money moves. From the trading pits of Chicago to NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange, see firsthand how information technology is both democratizing and globalizing the world of investment.