The Leonard Lopate Show

Underreported: Box Boats

In the last 50 years, technological innovations—from the internet to cell phones—have completely changed the way many of us live and do business. On today’s Underreported, we’ll take an in-depth look at a relatively unsung innovation—the box boat. While the shipping container itself is fairly low-tech, it has revolutionized the world economy—without box boats there might not be globalization or WalMart. Marc Levinson, author of The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, joins us.

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