No One’s Driving

What Really Caused the Supply Chain Mess Over PPE Last Year

Automation and complex distribution software created a nightmare scenario we’re still unpacking

Tim Maughan
OneZero
Published in
14 min readFeb 17, 2021

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Healthcare worker wearing PPE.
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Welcome to No One’s Driving, a column by novelist and tech writer Tim Maughan about how to understand a world governed by systems and technologies that

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Tim Maughan
OneZero
Writer for

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