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Jeff Bezos And Crony Technocrats Gather To Envision Utopia At MARS

• https://www.technocracy.news, By: Dave Gershgom

I'm planking, my muscles are on fire, and I'm face to face with the guy leading the development of the futuristic, cashier-less Amazon Go stores. He tells me his name is Dilip and his father is a four-star general. I note that, in case I'm tested later by the former Navy Seal currently yelling at us to keep our cores activated.

Along with 10 tech executives from Amazon, Sonos, Skydio and other startups, I'm baking in the Palm Springs sun, less than an hour into Navy Seal training. It was a far cry from the air-conditioned auditorium we had been sitting in hours earlier, listening to how a researcher reprogrammed the human brain to see objects by interpreting signals from the tongue.

That's what you get for accepting an invite to an event run by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. It's going to be intense, both physically and mentally.

This was Bezos' third year gathering some of the most notable figures in tech and space at a swanky Palm Springs resort, for a private, three-day collection of presentations and conversations on machine learning, automation, robotics, and space exploration—the initials of those fields spell MARS, giving the conference its name. Until now, it was mostly held behind closed doors—the biggest image to escape was Bezos stomping onto stage last year in a 13-foot-tall robotic suit.


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