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Episode: Who is Amazon?
Pub date: 2022-01-30

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In this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Rowena Squires, an ancient historian, asks Alina Utrata everything you ever wanted to know about Amazon. How did Amazon go from online bookstore to commercial empire? Is Amazon Alexa really recording everything you say? How was AWS cloud computing invented? And why is the Library of Alexandria such a good origin story for the Amazon Alexa?


You can follow Rowena Squires on Twitter @RowenaSquires, Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast on @AntiDystopians. Sign up for the Anti-Dystopians email newsletter at bit.ly/3kuGM5X


All episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production to the show, visit: bit.ly/3AApPN4


Articles mentioned in this episode:

  • Business reporter Brad Stone's 2013 book “The Everything Store” and the 2020 follow-up “Amazon Unbound
  • Alec MacGillis’s book “Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America”
  • The US House Judiciary Report on Monopolies
  • Franklin Foer’s deep-dive into Jeff Bezos’s brain in the Atlantic
  • Charles Duhigg’s “Is Amazon Unstoppable?”


For the rest of the articles mentioned in this episode, visit bit.ly/3kuGM5X


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