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ALEXA, IS AMAZON TAKING OVER THE WORLD?

Inviting Amazon's cameras into my bedroom is deeply unsettling. But I'm already a Prime member, shop at Whole Foods, store data on AWS. So what's the big deal? They’re already everywhere else.
 
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This week, I test drive the Amazon Look so you don’t have to. We consider the tradeoffs we don’t see when we shop on Amazon. How the company’s dominance from retail to web hosting could create a dystopia of social profiling. And why the answer isn’t to just cancel your Prime.

Amazon is the new Standard Oil, the “titan of twenty-first century commerce,” as rock star lawyer Lina Khan wrote in her viral law journal note.
Which, incidentally, might be a nice thing to include with your packages this year. We made a handy printable card with a link to her 96-page blockbuster. Give the gift of light reading on modern antitrust policy, along with those colanders and scarves.

THE YEAR THAT WAS


As I say every week, part of our goal here is to help you navigate this accelerating world. To define your own rules and boundaries, through dialogue, interviews and projects. 
 
This absurd sprint of a year is drawing to a close. If our work has helped you, made you laugh, made you smarter, please take a second now and support us by becoming a Member with your year-end tax-deductible donation. It truly makes everything we do possible.  
 
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ANY QUESTIONS?


We're putting together an advice show in the new year and you can still send your questions over. So far, you have sent me deep, human, messy quandaries about life in this accelerating world. Keep 'em coming. I have answers.

See you out there. 

Manoush
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