Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Amazon got a *ton* of press from the launch of the Amazon Go stores. A lot of it was ...
Amazon got a *ton* of press from the launch of the Amazon Go stores. A lot of it was very favorable, of course: Mister Market is insatiably horny for firing human beings and replacing them with robots, so any announcement that you've got a human-replacing robot is a surefire way to make Line Go Up. But there was also plenty of *critical* press about this - pieces that took Amazon to task for replacing human beings with robots.
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