The future of shipping will be autonomous. It will end the horrible labor abuses, and quite possibly halt piracy. However it would require trust. An autonomous ship could just has easily be a Trojan horse!
?!? Anything you could do to keep an unmanned ship from being robbed, you could do to a manned ship too.
> autonomous ship could just has easily be a Trojan horse!
?!? A manned ship could be a Trojan Horse too, in much the same way that the actual horse in the legend was.