A meticulously maintained and carefully fenced triangle of grass lies just at the base of Berlin's new tower, whose office space is entirely leased by the American online retailer Amazon. Since it began offering books on the internet and shipping them conveniently around the globe in packages back in 1994, the world has definitely not become a better place. While there are currently 1,554,224 employees working around the clock to distribute more or less important goods and increase Jeff Bezos' fortune, hundreds of patents suggest what the company has in mind for the future of the planet. Trucks, trains and airships, from which swarms of drones will deluge the world with parcels. Yet the self-driving robots that are tested on the streets of Los Angeles are looted or fail to perform their duties, flashing helplessly on the curbside.
We put guard dogs in Amazon's castle grounds. Objects that move almost imperceptibly, reminiscent of failed delivery attempts, but on closer inspection turn out to be surveillance robots under the cloak of carefully faked parcel and rubbish dummies.
