What if the shipping container had gone differently?

A standard steel box cuts the cost of moving goods by sea by more than 90%.

If it had gone differently: Ocean freight stays slow, pilfered and expensive; the globalised supply chain of the late century never becomes viable.

The real history on Wikipedia ↗

Later turning points that leaned on the shipping container. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.

1. 1991The World Wide Web. Without it, Networked computers stay the preserve of universities and corporations; there is no open web for anyone to publish to.