Since 2010, Amazon Technologies Inc. has filed 5,860 patents including everything from drone fulfilment centres, mobile robotic warehouses, augmented reality furniture, inflatable data centres, underwater and flying warehouse facilities, infinitely on-demand clothing manufacturing, automated shopping with image recognition systems and the ever-present spectre of drone delivery.
The talk will give context to this world building as an example of platform capitalism where Amazon aim to control a digital and physical infrastructure going far beyond their initial remit of e-commerce to now include shops, home automation, data centres, machine learning technology, shipping and airfreight operations.
