Can ‘eBay Now’ Really Hope to Compete with Amazon Prime Air Bakery?
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Remember when greed, covetousness and extreme impatience were considered bad things? Yeah, me either. But according to historians, in earlier times they were known as vices, not virtues. Go figure, right?
Fortunately, we live in an age of gratification so nearly, literally instantaneous that the window of our collective suffering — that awful and intolerable stretch of time when we want a thing, but don’t yet have that thing, and therefore have to wait for that thing (so degrading!) — is diminishing more and more with each passing day.
Amazon, as you know, recently made headlines with its announcement that it’s working on creating a fleet of unmanned drones that could deliver your Amazon order in as little as 30 minutes. Of course, it turns out that to achieve that kind of delivery time, Amazon may have to build a lot more warehouses a lot closer to a lot of U.S. households.
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