Tangential question:
...good old-fashioned software engineering has revolutionised the financial markets, saving the world billions of dollars of bad investments,...
Is this true? I’d like it to be true for many reasons. But I have seen some plausible arguments that in recent years the financial sector has not been doing its job in the economy very well. For example, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/29/101129fa_fact_cassidy?printable=true .
Tangential question:
...good old-fashioned software engineering has revolutionised the financial markets, saving the world billions of dollars of bad investments,...
Is this true? I’d like it to be true for many reasons. But I have seen some plausible arguments that in recent years the financial sector has not been doing its job in the economy very well. For example, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/29/101129fa_fact_cassidy?printable=true .