How Shipping Containers (and Their Monster Cranes) Changed The World

blab to a next - technology brand evangelist ( woefully a real thing ) , and they ’ll probably tell you that the Internet of Things is the next up - and - coming trend . But for the last 40 old age , a very unlike form of connection of interconnected clobber has been quiet revolutionizing the spheric economy .

merchant marine container , being at heart a 8x8x20 blade box , are not a aphrodisiacal or glamorous technology — in fact , you probably do n’t think of them as a technology . But as Tom Scott succinctly explains , the transport container net — containers as package , ports as router , and ISO standards the protocols hold everything together — has altered the way company and countries do business .

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