[quote]Drawing on its massive store of customer data, Amazon plans on shipping you items it thinks you'll like before you click the purchase button. The company today gained a new patent for "anticipatory shipping," a system that allows Amazon to send items to shipping hubs in areas where it believes said item will sell well. This new scheme will potentially cut delivery times down, and put the online vendor ahead of its real-world counterparts.[/quote]
All praise data! Now we just need to figure out when drones will be taking nude photos of us :D
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Some people might find it creepy or intrusive but I think it's pretty ingenious, a good usage of data and algorithms :D