The logistics of delivering deeply discounted luxury goods to a large consumer base now involve robots replacing warehouse workers.
How does this affect the mechanisms of “Social Envy” required for glamour to exist, as described by John Berger in Ways of Seeing? What new consumer desires replace the ones that we are able to fulfill in a networked society?
Gilt Groupe’s KIVA robots moving merchandise to and fro.
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