Amazon Urbanism: Patents and the Totalizing World of Big Tech Futures

This world has included proposals for multi-level drone fulfillment centers; mobile robotic warehouses; augmented reality furniture; inflatable data centers; underwater and flying warehouse facilities; infinitely expandable data centers; on-demand clothing manufacturing, automated shopping with image recognition systems and the ever-present spectre of drone delivery. In addition to shops and fulfillment centers, Amazon believes that image recognition technology could be further applied to libraries and museums – all ‘inventory’ becoming flattened and subject to the algorithmic gaze. Similar to the ‘drone beehive’ in Amazon’s patents are their  ‘Airborne Fulfillment Centers’ — large warehouse blimps that hover over urban areas — as well as ancillary ‘Aquatic Storage Facilities’.

Source: failedarchitecture.com