WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Former "60 Minutes" producers James Jacoby _ who appears on camera _ and Anya Bourg, both now with "Frontline's" Enterprise Journalism Group, spoke to nine former employees and a roster of Amazon's top executives for this two-hour investigation of one of the tech world's great disrupters, now valued at over $1 trillion. (Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos _ the world's richest person _ is not interviewed.) Their sobering conclusion: Amazon now has a vast store of information about us and will use that to grow even more powerful.
MY SAY: We know now that in the early years of the 21st century, our world was being closely watched by intelligences greater than our own. We were being scrutinized, like transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Yet with infinite complacence, we carried on:
Alexa, how do you make sugar cookies? Alexa, how do you pronounce "Lizzo?" Alexa, what are the opening lines of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds?"
