Amazon & “The People Problem”

Published by Jonathan Salem Baskin on

I want to believe that all of us will be itinerant, wandering poets in a future where all the work gets done by obedient robots…but there’s every reason to believe it’ll be somewhat less perfect.

Read the essay at A Cross of Silicon

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