The Greatest Innovations of All Time

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15. Containerized shipping

You want that where? When? This makes it easy to put anything and everything in a box and then get it where it needs to go by ship, plane, truck, or train, all at a fraction of the cost and in less time then ever before. Now houses and other buildings are being built from these boxes, or data centers can be shipped in them—just plug them in and add a water source and you've got yourself a supercomputer in any marsh or rice paddy anywhere.

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