Jeff Bezos Gave A Sneak Peek Into Amazon’S Hereafter (Amzn)

A flake belatedly getting to this but worthwhile insights into what Mr. Bezos wants the populace to know as well as what he doesn't.

From MIT Technology Review, March 22:

Amazon is a notoriously secretive company, but its recent conference provides a glance at its far-out plans.

You tin sack run across the time to come of Amazon from MARS.

In this case, MARS stands for “machine learning, dwelling automation, robotics, as well as infinite exploration”—an invitation-only conference inwards Palm Springs, California, hosted yesteryear Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos. This year’s conference, the tertiary annual, wrapped upwardly on Wednesday.

It wasn’t a normal conference. No deals were made. No products were announced. In fact, in that place wasn’t fifty-fifty whatever Amazon branding anywhere. During the ii days inwards the desert, the 200 guests—including a Nobel Prize winner, astronauts, designers, as well as the musician as well as Parkinson’s question advocate Michael J. Fox—explored their adventurous side alongside activities similar knife making as well as biplane rides. Ostensibly, the focus of the conference was on the presentations the guests could build to each other virtually their run or passions. But the event’s existent ability was a glimpse into Amazon’s future.

And it suggests that Bezos’s plans for the society are expansive.

Many of the talks discussed subjects on Amazon’s existing production route maps, as well as many of the guests represented companies already aligned alongside its businesses. Amazon’s Alexa voice-activated software is already integrated into products from speaker society Sonos as well as automaker Ford—and the CEO of Sonos as well as the CTO of Ford were both guests. 

Intel’s CEO, Brian Krzanich, demonstrated indoor drones that could i 24-hour interval choice upwardly an detail off a sky-high shelf inwards an Amazon warehouse. And recent whispers virtually Amazon’s involvement inwards wellness aid were backed upwardly alongside presentations yesteryear Sonde, an AI describe of piece of employment solid that tin sack diagnosis mental as well as physical wellness from vocalization recordings, as well as Seismic, a vesture society that helps wearers gain to a greater extent than mobility thank yous to robotic garments.

But Bezos appears to bring to a greater extent than far-out plans, too....MORE