Jeff Bezos wants to own all the robots

If he succeeds, we’re finished

Escape Pod

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by James Kaelan

A woodcut for the 1868 novella “The Steam Man of the Prairies”

In the salad days of infotech — the late 1980s/early 1990s, as the PC was becoming ubiquitous, but the internet was still something you accessed through a landline (if you logged on at all) — software wasn’t separable from its physical container. If you wanted a new program, you went to a store and bought…

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