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Innovation – Big bills left in the shipping container
I LOVE the history of the shipping container. Nothing could be more confounding to our usual ideas about innovation, stagnation, and technology.
Imagine for a moment that you’re standing on the docks at a major port in the early 1950s. You see some evidence of technological progress around you: mechanical cranes help load and unload cargo, onto steel-hulled ships with diesel engines. And yet the process you see hasn’t changed all that much over the course of a century or more…
