In reply tothis Wiley Post , on the inventions of the last 100 yearsthat most changed our lives , commenterAverageDraftermakes the case for an oft neglected , behind - the - scenes innovation of the century :
https://gizmodo.com/what-was-the-most-life-changing-invention-of-the-last-c-1441954880
Standardized Shipping Containers . There are many more inventions that should make the list , but I ’ll add this one because multitude do n’t think about how this invention grant the cosmos to shrink as much as the telephone or airplane did .
Until these , stevedore unlade ships by hand ( see On the Waterfront for example ) , which was prohibitively expensive to import en batch . So if you could make it here , we unremarkably did , and anything from overseas was pricey .
Now we make everything wherever the labor is cheapest , of trend this has led to so serious grow pains , but all humans changing excogitation … well transfer the world .
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