If you take into account that in 2016 Amazon surpassed Google in product searches, and they clearly have plans to add physical retail locations data to their systems with Amazon Go, there’s no telling how big Amazon’s potential is. The question is: do we like the idea of one company being in control of that much data?
Personally, stories like this make me think of Dave Egger’s the Circle. With Facebook's focus on live video, I thought Facebook might become the real life version of the company in the book, I was even surprised by it because I always thought it’d be Google. But now, maybe Amazon is the one to keep an eye on.
My closing thought: the potential of having too many data at the disposal of one company always gives me an itch. An uncomfortable itch.
What do you think?
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Submitted January 13, 2017 at 09:09PM by edriessen http://ift.tt/2jMwq3c via TikTokTikk
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