Arriving TodayAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 30 September 2021
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Shortlisted for the 2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards, Current Events & Public AffairsThe Wall Street Journal technology columnist reveals the fascinating story behind the misleadingly simple phrase shoppers take for grantedâ?"â?oArriving Todayâ??â?"in this eye-opening investigation into the new rules of online commerce, transportation, and supply chain management. We are at a tipping point in retail history. While consumers are profiting from the convenience of instant gratification, rapidly advancing technologies are transforming the way goods are transported and displacing workers in ways never before seen. In Arriving Today, Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover how a single product, from creation to delivery, weaves its way from a factory on the other side of the world to our doorstep. He analyzes the evolving technologies and management strategies necessary to keep the product moving to fulfill consumersâ?T demand for â?oarriving todayâ?? gratification. Mims reveals a world where the only thing moving faster than goods in an Amazon warehouse is the rate at which an entire industry is being gutted and rebuilt by innovation and mass shifts in human labor practices. He goes behind the scenes to uncover the paradoxes in this shiftâ?"into the worldâ?Ts busiest port, the cabin of an 18-wheeler, and Amazonâ?Ts automated warehousesâ?"to explore how the promise of â?oarriving todayâ?? is fulfilled through a balletic dance between humans and machines.A The scope of such large-scale innovation and expended energy is equal parts inspiring, enlightening, and horrifying. As he offers a glimpse of our future, Mims asks us to consider the systemâ?Ts vulnerability and its resilience, and who shoulders the burden, as we hurtle toward a fully automated systemâ?"and what it will mean when we are there.
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