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How the World Ran Out of Everything
Global shortages of many goods reflect the disruption of the pandemic combined with decades of companies limiting their inventories.
The empty shelves at a Target store in Dallas last June highlight how companies of all types were unprepared for a crisis.Credit.Nitashia Johnson for The New York Times
June 1, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
In the story of how the modern world was constructed, Toyota stands out as the mastermind of a monumental advance in industrial efficiency. The Japanese automaker pioneered so-called Just In Time manufacturing, in which parts are delivered to factories right as they are required, minimizing the need to stockpile them.
Going to the Moon via the Cloud
High-performance cloud computing has allowed start-ups to develop prototypes and run simulations including one to the moon that were previously done on supercomputers.
Credit.James Yang
This article is part of our new series,
, which examines how rapid advances in technology are transforming our lives.
Firefly Aerospace, a start-up based in the suburbs of Austin, Texas, is building a rocket to fly to the moon.
No, this isn’t a remake of “A Grand Day Out With Wallace and Gromit,” in which the animated duo go to the lunar surface on a search for cheese; it’s a real company. It’s also an example of how the ubiquitous availability of high-performance computing through the internet has unleashed a global wave of creativity. The “cloud,” that fuzzy euphemism for networks of massive computer farms that anyone can access with a laptop and a credit card, has put even the wildest dreams within reach of people with enough know-how.
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