“Every human in the supply chain—from crane drivers up to the captain of the ship I was on—was constantly receiving instructions from unseen, distant, management algorithms.”
– Science fiction writer
Tim Maughan, on the invisible networks that control container ships—and the world—in the first entry to his new column aptly titled
No One’s Driving. “I am here to tell you that the reason so much of the world seems incomprehensible is that it
is incomprehensible,” Maughan writes.