“Amazon’s First Fully Automated Factory Is Anything But”
| Title | “Amazon’s First Fully Automated Factory Is Anything But” |
| Year for Search | 2019 |
| Authors | Merchant, Brian |
| Secondary Title | The New York Times |
| Pagination | online |
| Date Published | October 21, 2019 with over 55 comments |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | The dystopia of working as a support to the robots in a warehouse, repairing them, cleaning up after them, doing the work they can’t do in conditions designed for the robots and not for humans. |
| URL | https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/opinion/future-amazon-automation.html |
| Info Notes | One of a series of “Op-Eds From the Future” that began May 27, 2019, and continued regularly through the rest of the year, with most, but not all, with eutopian or dystopian elements. |
| Illustration | Illus. John Karborn |
| Holding Institutions | online |
| Author Note | The author is a journalist, and editor of Motherboard, and the founder of Terraform. |
| Full Text | 2019 Merchant, Brian. “Amazon’s First Fully Automated Factory Is Anything But.” Illus. John Karborn. The New York Times (October 21, 2019) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/opinion/future-amazon-automation.html with over 55 comments. One of a series of “Op-Eds From the Future” that began May 27, 2019, and continued regularly through the rest of the year, with most, but not all, with eutopian or dystopian elements. The dystopia of working as a support to the robots in a warehouse, repairing them, cleaning up after them, doing the work they can’t do in conditions designed for the robots and not for humans. The author is a journalist, and editor of Motherboard, and the founder of Terraform. |
