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welcome to the cotkey ride home for t Tuesday, October 26th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, could a new

generation of AI simulations help solve the mounting supply chain disruptions? Plus, the history and

future of haunted houses.

And Jeff Bezos is basically trying to start a we-work in space.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

The supply chain disruptions just keep on coming.

Everyone's being told to get their holiday shopping done now, or ideally last month,

and now it's not just certain products you might want to buy as gifts that are in short supply,

but even the cardboard the packages come in. It's a big mess, with a ton of disparate and related causes that I've outlined ad nauseum on regular installments of

the shortage report.

Pandemic caused factory and mill shutdowns, shipping container snags, labor shortages, extreme weather events.

But with a magnifying glass hovering over various sectors of the supply chain, the heat is mounting,

and fortunately,

that's beginning to lead to solutions. A promising one is a type of AI-powered simulation called Digital Twins that Amazon has been using for years, but which other companies are

beginning to implement as well. Quoting the MIT technology review,

Digital twins seek to solve breakages in the supply chain by anticipating them before they

happen, and then using AI to figure out a workaround. The name captures the key idea of

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