Amazon has just announced that it is ditching its just walk out technology for retail stores just six years after launching it.

For those who never made it into one of these stores, the technology was amazing. There were no employees, there were

no cashiers. You just walked in, picked some items off the shelf, and walked out. That was it and somehow Amazon knew what you bought

and charged you for it. How did the tech giant do it? According to Amazon

this technological feat was accomplished through a

system of cameras, sensors, and AI. But buried in the reporting on Amazon's

pivot away from just walk Out is a little tidbit

about how the program actually worked. Apparently, Just Walk Out relied on more

than 1,000 Indians watching and labeling videos all day long.

It turns out AI actually stood for a lot of Indians.

In the words of Gizmodo, the cashiers were simply moved off site and they

watched you as you shopped. Apparently the Indians were not meticulous or inexpensive enough, so Amazon is phasing out the technology.

And I love this story.

I love it because one of the most cutting-edge companies in history is affirming, is proving all of my

conservative intuitions. In an age, totally enthrall to science and technology, we discover that so many

supposed wonders are defective, even deceitful, nothing more than a facade held up by lots of little Indian

Wizards of Oz.

In an age that worship's novelty, we find out that things have not really changed all that much.

Clerks still operate the shops that sell us things, same as they always have everywhere on earth.

And in an age of unprecedented centralizing corporate power, the

everything store cannot reliably charge you for a box of cereal. We have not really progressed so much, which means there's hope yet.

I'm Michael Noles, this is the Michael Noles show. D. The 28 year old woman is bragging to the media that she is going to kill herself in about a month.

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