> I actually don't think Amazon retail (i.e. sans AWS) is an important artifact in the big picture. If only considering the WWW impacts, then sure. In the phy

> I actually don't think Amazon retail (i.e. sans AWS) is an important artifact in the big picture. If only considering the WWW impacts, then sure. In the physical world, however, it's definitely an important artifact, considering how much it's upended things for brick-and-mortar (at all scales) and the whole supply chain / fulfillment / logistics realm. (And note that "important" should not be taken to mean "beneficial" here; it's already important to the history of these sectors in the same sense that giant asteroids are important to the history of Earth-based life - that is, outright destructive of the current landscape, but might very well result in new opportunities in its wake)