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
OneZero
Published in
10 min readNov 30, 2020

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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

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Tim Maughan
OneZero
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Writer. Debut novel INFINITE DETAIL out now on FSG. Bylines at BBC, Motherboard, New Scientist. http://timmaughanbooks.com