For many, Space is the next frontier, but for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, it's the next internet, and he and his company wants to be there to see it happen. He views space as a place that is lacking in infrastructure to support the vast amount of entrepreneurs the Earth has to offer.
Bezos spoke at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco. He talked about Blue Origins, a rocket venture that falls under Amazon. It's primarily competing directly with SpaceX, but it isn't being talked about on the same level.
The plan is to create the same type of infrastructure for space that Amazon did for the internet back in 1995.
From what he had to say at the event, it's clear that Bezos is passionate about transforming space into something humans can better understand in a way that can improve human life.
Bezos went on to talk about his early days at Amazon more than two decades ago. At the time, he was delivering packages to post offices throughout the United States with a 10-man team. The internet came about, and he used it to change everything, and now, Amazon is one of the biggest retailers in the world.
"Two kids in their dorm room cannot do anything interesting in space," according to a statement from Bezos. "We need to be able to put big things in space at low cost."
Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla and SpaceX, believes the same thing, which is why his company has been working hard on reusable rockets designed to cut the cost of traveling through space on a regular basis.
Building out an infrastructure in space is easier said than done, because as we sit here today, we humans still have little knowledge of what lies outside the safe zone of our planet. Still, someone has to begin somewhere, and both Bezos and Musk are making the right moves.
Until then, Amazon will continue to do what it does best, and that is, release exciting products to market. The latest is the Kindle Paperwhite, a device that was designed for the Japanese manga reading crowd. It comes with 32 GB of storage, so reading the newest chapter of Berserk should be more pleasing.
Amazon is not stopping there; the company is preparing for the holiday. It aims to hire more than 120,000 part-time workers later this year to help keep up with demand. Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas, should keep staffers very busy.
