It’s a square square world: digital; containers; big sheds; terminal architecture. Is the age of the sphere passing? MoL asks how long before FIFA introduces the square football? How long before we say, “See you asquare”?
The World the Box Made: On April 26, 1956, a crane lifted 58 aluminum truck bodies aboard an aging tanker ship moored in Newark, NJ. Five days later, the Ideal-X sailed into Huston, where 58 trucks waited to take on the metal boxes and haul them to their destinations. Such was the beginning of a revolution. (The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson)
What they didn’t solve: containers travel east-west full, but with nothing to put in them for the return.
A box is a reinforced cod-piece worn by a cricketer to protect his balls from being hit (by the ball).