As AI Assistants Fight Over Shoppers, Infrastructure Gets Paid Either Way.
In April 1956, a trucking executive named Malcom McLean loaded 58 metal boxes onto a converted tanker in Newark and sent it to Houston. Nobody threw confetti. The longshoremen hated it. But the math was hard to argue with. Loading a ship by hand cost about $5.86 a ton. Loading it with McLean’s…