Perhaps it's because I have an interest in infrastructure,
or because I found The Box
(a book about shipping containers)
a fascinating read
(no, really!),
or because I have an interest in automation,
I found
Dan Williams talk
at the Cambridge Internet of Things really interesting
(link via Tom Scott,
which itself is an interesting video about the loading and unloading of a container ship in port).
From a wholesale mall (only in lots of 100, please) in China the size of a city
to showing just how automated a cargo ship really is
(running Microsoft Windows no less—and yes,
they have to reboot the computers from time to time),
it's worth watching the presentation.
Okay,
okay,
I found it interesting.
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