These Software Glitches Destroyed Lives

Picture this – you're at the vanguard of a new horizon in economic opportunity. You run an online exchange, which practically all of the world's cryptocurrency flows through. You're on the top of the world at the center of the universe – and thanks to some crappy programming, your system deletes $300 million. The house of cards collapses. And that's getting off easy compared to some of the stories we know. When machines are in charge of everything from money and medicine to missiles, a single line of code can be the difference between life and death.