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As just a customer, Amazon is the closest I've gotten to Star Trek level technology. I tell Alexa what I want and two hours later a set of headphones, a box o
by reddog 9y ago
As just a customer, Amazon is the closest I've gotten to Star Trek level technology. I tell Alexa what I want and two hours later a set of headphones, a box of Tide and a package of Earl Grey tea materializes on my front porch.
Not quite as fast as Picard's replicator but for all practical purposes, the same thing.
- vadimberman 9y agoSci-fi wise, Amazon is the closest to Wall-E's Buy n Large. (Even though Buy n Large started as a frozen yogurt company.)
- _rpd 9y agoYeah, any retailer that requires me to fight traffic, parking and morose customer service just to obtain an item that I can instead have delivered to my porch is at a severe disadvantage.