Amazon Go and yet another debate about the future of work

The of , a store in Seattle open for the time being only to company employees who are identified as they arrive by scanning a code generated by an app and who then choose what they want and leave without paying at a cash register, has once again raised the question about the future of work.

Amazon Go uses , and , a combination of technologies that are growing exponentially as they are fed new information. Cameras throughout the store identify shoppers through facial recognition and then note their purchases, invoicing their Amazon accounts. This concept is, in fact, something that I have been talking about in my classes for more than a decade such as in or , but which until now was merely conceptual.

While people are still needed to stock shelves and prepare some products at the Amazon Go store, the initiative completely eliminates the need for cashiers and checkout lines, a job that according to the latest available data, provided employment for about 3.5 million people…