2020/11/30

The World Feels Incomprehensible Because it Is, Tim Maughan Writes

“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.
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