S2 Ep 4 - Money
Xploration Earth 2050
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22m
Money has changed more in the last ten years than it has in the last thousand. Join host Chuck Pell as he goes to outer space with Canada’s new plastic money. Local communities print their own money, and it works just like the real thing. And Chuck will see if digital money---which you can’t even see---is really the currency of the future.
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