In our modern times, the process of production is being transformed into a fully automated process where humans no longer have their place in it. This production is controlled by algorithms that are connected to the entire supply chain. In our case study, we’re going to focus first and foremost on the Amazon online sale services as it is a huge corporation that has many different services. Secondly, we will turn our attention to the intricate relation between our consumption, the production and sale of products and the consumption of natural resources, all causing great harm to the planet. In our project we will examine these parameters that endangers our future life’s and try to envision how future production might look like following the technological changes.

Amazon is today one of the biggest multinational technology company in the world influencing a large number of domains like e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming and artificial intelligence. We are going to focus on the e-commerce and the artificial intelligence used in the process of the online sale services.
This process happens mostly in the Amazon warehouses where they have developed a robotised workforce, to allow a symbiotic work integration with the human workforce.  For better productivity results, Amazon warehouses have adopted the “Kaizen” technique created by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota. It is a strategy where the manufacturing process is constantly being improved by workers ideas to achieve better productivity results. The second workers in the warehouses are the “pickers”, robots that picks boxes and transport them from a point A to a point B. These robots are programmed with an algorithm that allows communication between them.  This combination between humans and robots is improving the productivity of the warehouse allowing the product to arrive in front of the customers door in record times. The case of the Amazon warehouse where there is little human presence, showcases a glimpse into a future of automation where humans no longer have a role to play, it could even be interpreted as one of the first cybernetic art pieces.
Let’s turn our attention at the consumption of natural resources, primarily gas and oil extraction that allows energy production as well as many by-products that are used by society (plastic products, cosmetics, etc…).  Therefore, the natural resources market in today’s world is a very active market and very destructive because the production of goods is primarily based on oil and gases. On the other side, we are more and more influenced to consume goods threw social media and advertising that are taking a much bigger place in our everyday life. This increases our desire toward objects consumption even influencing us to buy things we don’t really need.  This way of capitalisation encourages the over-consumption behaviour, the over-production and so the over-consumption of natural resources endangering our life on earth. These resources have been exploited for more than century’s and are the pillars of the industrial era. We are facing today a scarcity of oil and gas due to their over-exploitation therefore our over-consumption. The big companies are now researching new extraction points like at sea, constituting 70% of our planet and with no public vision on it. The number of research and discoveries in the field of offshore resources exploitation have been increasing to a tipping point where the offshore extraction quantity of oil and gases has overtaken the extraction on land. The public turning a blind eye on this situation has led to corporations being able to operate freely without any concerns about ethics, security or environment.

The cities have always emerged with a perspective toward forming a community that will facilitate exchange between people. Secondly, they needed to be set in an advantageous geographical position in term of natural resources that can be exploite 
These two factors, as showcased before are becoming obsolete for the community as the importation of goods and resources became a normality even a necessity for the world economy. Technologies have drastically changed the way we trade goods and services; proximity isn’t a necessity anymore. Technologies like nuclear fusion can also have the ability to change the way we produce energy with no gases and oils needed in the process. With this said, the FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) would still be a big problem for the natural resources consumption. We are now faced by a future that allows the manufacturer to delocalize offshore, closer to natural resources. These offshore industries can operate as a smart port that load and unload merchandise on and off boats that will transport the product on land. The cyberspace of petrochemical production is being shaped. We are going to analyse two different theories that would prove the efficacity of productivity of this system. First, Alfred Marshall theory on clusters, and defines them as “concentration of specialized industries in particular localities” that he refers as industrial district and that could in the future be offshore helping the industries with the proximity of the resources to produce. Second, the Metcalfe law, in his law he says that “a network’s value is proportional to the square of the number of nodes in the network. The end nodes can be computers, servers and simply users”. In other terms, the higher the density in the network, the more the latter will be efficient. In this case, a network of industries exploiting resources, producing products and serving as an offshore port linked to the world can be a very efficient network with no ethic or environmental obligations at the same time blindsiding the public.

With all this said and in the perspective of productivity and profits, a distributed network of smart manufacturing is born with no human presence allowed…