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This holiday season, Amazon and Google try to distract with drones and robots

December 09, 2013 by David Johnson

Why are Amazon and Google talking about delivery drones and autonomous robots instead of real products that people can actually buy this holiday season? Last week Jeff Bezos: Amazon CEO, sat down with Charlie Rose of 60 Minutes. This aired on the eve of Cyber Monday: the time when people are thinking about where to continue their shopping spree for the latest and greatest consumer goods. They turn on the TV to find the head of the world's biggest shopping center, quite literally, droning on about autonomous drones.

 

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December 09, 2013 /David Johnson
Amazon, Google, Amazon drones, Google Robots, 60 Minutes, Amazon Prime, fulfillment centers, Walmart, Charlie Rose, UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS, Andy Rubin, Millennium Man
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Why are we dying for Black Friday with Cyber Monday right around the corner?

November 30, 2013 by David Johnson

The source link provides a gruesome list of Black Friday related injuries and deaths. One of the deaths is of a teen who fell asleep at the wheel on the way home from a day of Black Friday shopping. She probably stayed up all night to be the first in line, and literally shopped till she dropped. Another man was stabbed, fighting over a parking space. Still another, shot on his way home, carrying a television. Reporters shake their heads over the senseless tragedies that result from Black Friday, but never consider themselves to be a part of the problem. Well, they are, and a big part at that!

 

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November 30, 2013 /David Johnson
Black Friday, asleep at the wheel, trampling, Cyber Monday, conspicuous consumption, UPS
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