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No One’s Driving

The Modern World Has Finally Become Too Complex for Any of Us to Understand

Vast systems, from automated supply chains to high-frequency trading, now undergird our daily lives — and we’re losing control of all of them

Tim Maughan

Nov 30, 2020·10 min read

A photo collage of a shipping dock, a graph of a stock market activity, and an automated warehouse — Photo illustration, sources: Jesper Klausen/Science Photo Library/Sukanya Sitthikongsak/yoh4nn/Getty Images

A photo collage of a shipping dock, a graph of a stock market activity, and an automated warehouse — Photo illustration, sources: Jesper Klausen/Science Photo Library/Sukanya Sitthikongsak/yoh4nn/Getty Images