Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. United Airlines has something of an image problem. I want to sympathize. I’m only human, after all. However, this particular image problem was largely self-inflicted. After dragging Dr. David Dao and his bloodied face down a plane, […]
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. If there’s one thing that annoys airline passengers — and there’s never just one — it’s the fact that planes have become painfully claustrophobic. Airlines are stuffing ever more seats onto planes. And the seats themselves are
Don’t look now, but experiments to turn physical stores into automated vending machines are breaking out all over. Last month, Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com announced it is opening hundreds of convenience stores that have no human employees. Designed around facial and object recognition technology, this initiative goes beyond Amazon’s Go pilot autonomous store, unveiled a
