Investment managers are still using technology from 1996 to manage money

Margin Call Somebody, somewhere, could be reading these words on a phone while his or her car drives itself down the freeway. Perhaps the driver (or, rather, the passenger) is headed out on a date -- set up by an algorithm -- and was alerted to this article because an artificially intelligent newsbot on a social network determined it might be of interest. This is the incredible world in which we now live. Equally impressive, at least to me, is the speed with which we integrate new technologies a...