At that 2003 all-day Amazon all-hands meeting, Jeff Bezos gave the opening talk. It was called “It’s Still Day 1.” He described the history of electricity, with vivid historical photographs of the nests of wires coming down from light sockets in the ceiling to power new kinds of electric devices. The standardized power plug hadn’t yet been invented. He showed how factories still drove the machines on their assembly lines with huge centralized motors, with belts and pulleys carrying the power, just as they had in the age of steam, not yet having realized that they could bring electricity
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