Financial journalist Michael Lewis explains how the technological advances of the 2000s ushered in a corrupt stock market and shines a light on those who fought to fix it.

By the turn of the millennium, countless industries were turning to technology over manual labor.

However, the vast implications of the stock market's computerization flew under the radar.

Michael Lewis is an author and financial journalist who specializes in breaking down financial crises in layman's terms.

In Flash Boys, Lewis lays out how the structure of the digital stock market lent itself to corruption, taking us back to the switch from human-run exchanges to a computerized market.

Throughout the book, Lewis demonstrates how the resulting complexities enabled cheating, introduces us to victims of the system, and looks at who is working on getting the stock market back on a fairer track.