“But you end up servicing the whole world. So it’s really good. By definition you end up accessing people who are ‘under-bandwidthed.’ Very rural areas, remote areas. And I think you can see going forward that internet, access to broadband is going to be very close to being a fundamental human need as we move forward.
“If you were a successful, sophisticated big manufacturing company and you wanted electricity in your plant, you had an electric generator in the basement. That’s how you got electricity. It really didn’t take long. It took 20 or 30 years before there were two things — independent power producers and then first regional and then a national electric grid. And, in a relative short period of time, the entire paradigm of how electricity got delivered was turned on its head. And now you can actually see that we have some pictures of these electric generators sitting in museums. It seems kind of quaint, and it is almost a hard story for me to wrap my head around: ‘Well, of course people aren’t going to generate their own electricity.’ Well, that’s what they did, and these things are now in museums. If you think about it, it just doesn’t make sense for an insurance company to be generating its own electricity. Simarlily, we don’t think it makes a lot of sense for an insurance company or a media company to be running their own IT infrastructure, because they have a lot more value-added, differentiated things to worry about on behalf of customers.”
“As for retail stores, Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods 470 stores along with testing of the Amazon Go retail concept is evidence that Amazon sees the future of retail as a combination of mostly online and some offline,” Munster wrote.
“Amazon’s quest for a second massive corporate base is reminiscent of Boeing’s ongoing efforts to ship jobs out of the Seattle area and hold us hostage,” said Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant. “For decades, Boeing executives and billionaire shareholders have carried out systematic economic extortion by pitting cities and states against one another, forcing a race to the bottom for the living standards of workers, and crushing labor unions. Amazon has similarly been using its monopoly power to gobble up swathes of prime real estate, and extract plum deals from the city’s Democratic establishment.”
“Aside from the many brick-and-mortar retailers watching foot traffic and sales drop to near zero, the most profound shift in consumer behavior is happening in grocery ecommerce—and this shift is likely to have one of the longest-lasting consequences,”?eMarketer?wrote.
“As far as some joint proposal, it’s way too early to say or answer that question,” Inslee said.
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“Innovation in the smart home space is taking off and has the potential to make our everyday lives easier and more serendipitous than ever,” said Steve Rabuchin, vice president for Amazon Alexa, in a news release. “We’re investing in Luma through the Alexa Fund because we’re excited about Luma’s vision to not only bring better and faster WiFi to consumers but to innovate on what’s possible with IoT and voice technologies.”
“If you don’t move a senior exec, it’s hard to call it a headquarters,” he said.
“If it’s unbearably hot where you are, and you happen to have your shirt off (gents) or a bikini top (ladies), then just crop the webcam to your face,” the rule states. “Problem solved.”
“Amazon’s wind purchase is a good first step to meet the promise that it will power its data centers with 100 percent renewable energy, and is welcome news for Amazon’s customers that have called on the company to embrace renewable energy,” said Greenpeace Senior Energy Campaigner David Pomerantz.