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Came here to post exactly this link.

A similar ppiece was written in the context software, Dizzying but Invisible Depth. https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru/posts/dfydM2Cnepe

A story sometimes referenced by Milton Friedman: http://youtu.be/4ERbC7JyCfU?t=19s

I'd love to see the same structure analyzed again by a marxist or something instead of Friedman. Instead of focusing on the pencil getting made by this almost unfathomably complex concert of global labor, you can focus on the few bourgeoise actually profiting from it and how all of these disparate groups of laborers are almost invisibly caught in/exploited by the web. Not that I think either is the whole story, it would just be fun to listen to in the same way that this was.

Thanks. I vaguely remembered a pencil story similar to this, but I'm glad to have the title now.

He edited the piece to note that one. I love this tool chain type piece. Someone should write one about computer tool chains.

Wow, yeah. Explaining how a goofy CSS animation appears on your screen after being sent from a disk on a web server, starting from rare earth metals and silicon purification.