"...But most people don't think about where these objects came from, about the lives our possessions lived before we bought them. Almost everything we own spends weeks or even months on factory floors, in warehouses and storage rooms, on trucks and in shipping containers. Our things traveled a long journey to reach us, crisscrossing the globe through massive networks of transit and supply chains before finally coming to rest in our homes..."

 

The Black Box is a slide lecture exploring, among other topics, more than a century of the history of online shopping. 100 slides, approximately one hour.

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