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Historian Dr. Kate McDonald refers to the period of the 1950s and 1960s as the "logistics revolution," when holistic plans for traffic systems and goods transport were developed and introduced in Western industrial societies. Mechanization, streamlining and automation were the watchwords of the day. Human labor was now seen more as a relic of the past, with the machine taking center stage. But this image is deceptive.