While overall accelerated technology, and specifically robotics, have sped up their evolution in the past two decades, the most dramatic economic impact has hit America’s consumer sector, which currently comprises 68% of America’s $18 trillion GDP.
This vast retail sector, where tens of thousands of shopping centers comprise the center of much of these consumer goods providers, has become increasingly vulnerable to the mid-1990s appearance of Amazon, the incredible purveyor of goods to tens of millions of America’s vast shopping community.